Asterion II

At 32,071 gross tons, Asterion II is the 18,158th 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 5.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 47th by tonnage — larger than 95% 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Asterion II is the 280th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 241 ferrys flying the Japan flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Asterion II was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT; within it this ship is the 229th 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 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 192.5 m overall, Asterion II is 88.5 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 27.0 m and a draft of 6.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8922163 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1975 to 1992. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1975.

Its IMO number, 8922163, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 2×5 + 2×4 + 1×3 + 6×2 = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.