Cruise Ferry Hiryu 21

At 14,614 gross tons, Cruise Ferry Hiryu 21 is the 31,234th 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 2.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 178th by tonnage — larger than 80% 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 Cruise Ferry Hiryu 21 is the 368th 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 45 are larger by tonnage.

Cruise Ferry Hiryu 21 was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 488th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 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 167.0 m overall, Cruise Ferry Hiryu 21 is 63.0 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 9135250 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1995 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.

Its IMO number, 9135250, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 3×5 + 5×4 + 2×3 + 5×2 = 120 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.