USNS AMELIA EARHART

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IMO: 9319818
MMSI: 369894000
Call Sign: NEAR

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage

43,758GT

Deadweight

19,288DWT

Length Overall

210m

Beam

32.2m

Year Built

2008

Overview

About This Vessel

USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6), a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for noted American aviation pioneer and women's rights advocate Amelia Earhart (1897–1937). The contract to build the ship was awarded to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) of San Diego, California, on 27 January 2004. Her keel was laid down at the end of May 2007 at General Dynamics' NASSCO shipyard. In early 2007, Alex Mandel along with members of the Amelia Earhart Society (AES) and Amelia Earhart Research Association (AERA) successfully petitioned the naming of the ship. On 26 July 2007 one of the ship's four 200-ton diesel-electric engines toppled from a truck delivering it to the shipyard in the 2700 block of Harbor Drive, San Diego. The engine damaged three vehicles, completely flattening one. A woman sleeping in the back of a van whose front-end was destroyed suffered minor injuries. The accident also created an 8-foot-deep (2.4 m) sink-hole in the roadway and ruptured a water main. The accident is believed to have been caused when the truck accidentally delivered the engine to the wrong gate of the shipyard and hit the curb while backing up in an attempt to turn around. The engine was recovered on 29 July by three heavy cranes. At 9 p.m.

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 31 d ago

Position

35.122°N · 129.072°E

Speed

0.0 kn

Course

125°

Status

Moored

Destination CETA Mar 14, 06:15 PMDraught 8.7 m

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Port of Busan — 26 d across 2 stays.

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Port of Busan26 d · 2×

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

77/ 100

Safety68

Compliance95

Environment68

Recent port calls

South Busan
Jul 22, 2026
10.3 d
South Busan
Jun 24, 2026
25.9 d
Port of Busan
Jun 18, 2026
3.9 d

AIS-derived from our live feed.

Operational Status

Activity

Status unknownLow confidenceFix 27 days ago

The latest broadcast is too stale or lacks the speed / status to classify.

Speed

0.0 kn

Nav status

Moored

Last broadcast

27 days ago

Hull age

18 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

17 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).

South Busan
op. unknown
In port since
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 3.8 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
op. unknown
In port since
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 2.1 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 2.3 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 3.2 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 4.0 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 4.2 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 5.0 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 5.2 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 6.0 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
no cargo change
→ · 6.2 days in port· draught 8.7→8.7 m
South Busan
op. unknown
In port since
South Busan
op. unknown
In port since
South Busan
op. unknown
In port since
South Busan
op. unknown
In port since
South Busan
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.

Where it waits

1 port · 42.0 days total

Time-in-port summed by port from the AIS-detected port-call history — the ports this vessel has spent the most time at, longest first.

South Busan· South Korea
42.0 days
10 calls · 4.2 days avg

Based on 10 completed calls observed since — open calls (no departure yet) are excluded. The distribution sharpens as AIS history accrues.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

68/100

Elevated risk40% 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 & behaviour80

Hull age52

Flag registerno data

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. 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

~19,288t at summer draught

Other · summer draught 8.59 m · 35 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught

6.01 m~10,283 t

6.44 m~11,784 t

6.87 m~13,285 t

7.3 m~14,786 t

7.73 m~16,286 t

8.16 m~17,787 t

8.59 m~19,288 t

Design draught looks implausible for this class and size — the figures above are anchored to it, so treat them with extra caution.

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

Transparency

Risk signals

Behavioural flags raised against this vessel — each shown with the raw evidence behind it. Derived in-house from data we are entitled to publish; informational, not a determination of wrongdoing.

AIS gaphighstrength 1.00

Stopped transmitting relative to the live feed front

Aug 17, 2026

Feed Front: Aug 27, 2026
Gap Days: 26.87
Last Fix: Jul 31, 2026
On Sanctions List: no
Threshold Days: 3

Method: gap measured vs the live feed's own max timestamp, not wall-clock. Source: TheMaritime aisstream.io ingest (ais_positions).

Signals are a current-state view: a flag clears once the vessel stops tripping its detector. These are screening indicators, not a substitute for your own due diligence.

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