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

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreHigh

58/ 100

Safety38

Compliance95

Environment38

Composite Risk

Risk Score

70/100

Elevated riskLow confidence40% component coverage

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

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposureno data

Dark-fleet signalno data

Hull age100

Flag register25

A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components 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.

Estimated

Capacity & Classification

Cargo capacity at draughtMedium confidence

~885t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 4.3 m · 4.2 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

3.01 m~349 t

3.22 m~438 t

3.44 m~527 t

3.66 m~617 t

3.87 m~706 t

4.09 m~796 t

4.3 m~885 t

Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (deadweight regression) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

Load port

Discharge port

CargotFreight$/tFrom 885 DWT · ~9 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

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.