AF Francesca

At 19,811 gross tons, AF Francesca is the 26,951st largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 3.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 115th by tonnage — larger than 87% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which AF Francesca is the 287th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 97 ferrys flying the Italy flag, of which 24 are larger by tonnage.

AF Francesca was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT; within it this ship is the 147th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 8 vessels to Italcantieri, with a median tonnage of 19,009 GT, delivered between 1970 and 1983. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 148.0 m overall, AF Francesca is 44.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7602089 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1977 and which range from 1945 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.

Its IMO number, 7602089, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 8×2 = 109 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.