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Logistics Naval Vessel🇺🇸 USAActive

LEROY A.MENDONCA

IMO
9147320
MMSI
338846000
Call Sign
NBMK

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
69,365GT
Deadweight
34,539DWT
Length Overall
289.23m
Beam
32.23m
Draught
8.9m
Year Built
2001

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 42 min ago
Track · last 13 d
Position
36.973°N · 76.434°W
Speed
0.0 kn
Course
Status
Moored

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Norfolk 10 d across 3 stays.

  1. 1
    Norfolk10 d · 3×

Derived from the AIS track — runs of near-zero speed (anchored, moored or drifting) snapped to the nearest port. Builds up as we observe the vessel.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreMedium
71/ 100
Safety58
Compliance95
Environment58
Recent port calls

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Idle / at anchorFix within the last day

Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast — parked, not necessarily withdrawn.

Speed
0.0 kn
Nav status
Moored
Last broadcast
within the last day
Hull age
25 yr

Read from the single most-recent AIS broadcast we hold for this hull — we keep no position history, so this is a point-in-time posture, not a dwell inference. Derived in-house from our own AIS feed; weight it by the broadcast age above.

Port calls

2 recent · AIS-detected

Arrivals, time in port and the load/discharge inferred from the draught change — detected from AIS track history. An open call means the vessel is still in port (no departure observed yet).

  1. op. unknown
    In port since
  2. op. unknown
    In port since

Method: each call is a run of fixes inside a port’s geofence confirmed by a stop (or an AIS gap); load/discharge is the sign of the draught delta over the call. Indicative — arrivals before our AIS history began read from the first observation.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

58/100
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 age80
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 draughtHigh confidence
~34,539t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 8.9 m · 62.9 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
6.23 m~17,754 t
6.68 m~20,552 t
7.12 m~23,349 t
7.57 m~26,147 t
8.01 m~28,944 t
8.46 m~31,742 t
8.9 m~34,539 t

Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (hull geometry) 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

From 34,539 DWT · ~24 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

Overview

About This Vessel

MV Leroy A. Mendonca, formerly USNS Mendonca (T-AKR-303), was a Bob Hope-class roll on roll off vehicle cargo ship of the United States Navy. She was built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, New Orleans and delivered to the Navy on 30 January 2001. They assigned her to the United States Department of Defense's Military Sealift Command. Mendonca is named for Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant Leroy A. Mendonca, and is one of 11 Surge LMSRs operated by a private company under contract to the Military Sealift Command. She was assigned to the MSC Atlantic surge force and is maintained in Ready Operational Status 4. On 26 September 2022, Mendonca left service and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. On March 11, 2024, the vessel unloaded the Army's 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team's 3000 pieces of equipment in the Greek port of Alexandroupolis.

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