Training Ship 🇺🇸 USAActive

GENERAL RUDDER

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IMO: 8835463
MMSI: 367604000
Call Sign: WTAU

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

1,472GT

Deadweight

885DWT

Length Overall

68.28m

Beam

13.11m

Draught

4.3m

Year Built

1984

Overview

About This Vessel

TS General Rudder was the primary training vessel of Texas A&M Maritime Academy. In operation with Texas A&M from 2012 to 2023, it originated as the USNS Contender (T-AGOS-2), a Stalwart-class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy. It also served as the flagship of the United States Merchant Marine Academy training fleet from 1992 to 2012. As of December 2024, the ship was berthed at the Beaumont Reserve Fleet in Beaumont, Texas.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Composite Risk

Risk Score

74/100

Elevated riskLow confidence20% component coverage

Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

AIS-gap & behaviourno data

Hull age100

Flag registerno data

A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

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