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Largest in this registry
#19,044
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#56
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
MS GNV Azzurra is a cruiseferry owned by the Mediterranean Shipping Company and operated by the Italy-based SNAV. It was ordered from Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona, Sweden by Rederi AB Gotland as MS Gotland, but delivered as MS Wasa Star to Vaasanlaivat / Vasabåtarna. Between 1984 and 2008 she sailed as MS Peter Wessel for Larvik Line (until 1996) and Color Line, before being sold to her current owners.
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 30,317 gross tons, GNV Azzurra is the 19,044th 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 5.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 56th by tonnage — larger than 94% 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 GNV Azzurra is the 202nd 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 16 are larger by tonnage.
GNV Azzurra was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 169th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 50 vessels to Öresund shipyard, with a median tonnage of 20,418 GT, delivered between 1921 and 2000. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 168.5 m overall, GNV Azzurra is 64.5 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 26.4 m and a draft of 5.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7826790 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1979 and which range from 1978 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.
Its IMO number, 7826790, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 6×4 + 7×3 + 9×2 = 170 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
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.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from GNV Azzurra on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy an unnamed photographer, reused under Attribution.
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