Excelsior

At 40,193 gross tons, Excelsior is the 13,657th 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 6.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 20th by tonnage — larger than 98% 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 Excelsior is the 146th 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 3 are larger by tonnage.

Excelsior was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 188th 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 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 202.0 m overall, Excelsior is 98.0 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 9184419 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1997 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9184419, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 4×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 139 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.