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Largest in this registry
#6,266
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#3
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 6 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Color Fantasy is a cruiseferry owned and operated by Color Line on their route between Oslo in Norway and Kiel in Germany. The ship was built in Finland at Aker Finnyards Turku Shipyard in 2004. Color Fantasy is currently the world's second largest cruiseferry, surpassed only by her sister ship, the Color Magic.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 75,027 gross tons, Color Fantasy is the 6,266th 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 3rd by tonnage — larger than 100% 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.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Color Fantasy is the 111th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 188 ferrys flying the Norway flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
Color Fantasy was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 147th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 46 vessels to Kvaerner Masa-Yards, with a median tonnage of 70,367 GT, delivered between 1990 and 2004. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 223.8 m overall, Color Fantasy is 119.8 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 35.0 m and a draft of 6.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9278234 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.
Its IMO number, 9278234, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 7×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 3×2 = 154 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Torine | 2024 | 241,000 |
| Color Magic | 2007 | 75,156 |
| Color Fantasy (this ship) | 2004 | 75,027 |
| Cruise Roma | 2008 | 54,310 |
| Cruise Barcelona | 2008 | 54,310 |
| Tanit | 2012 | 52,645 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Color Fantasy on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Jelly, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.