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Ro-Ro
Operated by NorthLink Ferries
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Largest in this registry
#33,820
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ro-ro
#306
of 799 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 2 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Hrossey is a NorthLink Ferries vehicle and passenger ferry based in Aberdeen. Along with her sister ship, the MV Hjaltland, she operates a daily ferry service between mainland Scotland and the northern archipelagos of Orkney and Shetland.
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 11,720 gross tons, Hrossey is the 33,820th 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 2.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 306th by tonnage — larger than 62% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Hrossey is the 361st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 25 ro-ros flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.
Hrossey was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 634th 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 27 vessels to Aker Finnyards, with a median tonnage of 34,231 GT, delivered between 1998 and 2008. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 125.0 m overall, Hrossey is within a metre of the 125.0 m median length for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 20.0 m and a draft of 5.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9244960 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.
Its IMO number, 9244960, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 4×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 6×2 = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ro-ros
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Miyarabi | 1995 | 11,820 |
| MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 | 1970 | 11,779 |
| Pascoli 96 | 1971 | 11,779 |
| Hrossey (this ship) | 2002 | 11,720 |
| Al Mansour | 1975 | 11,717 |
| Bahia Cargo | 2001 | 11,671 |
| Bentyaga Cargo |
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 MV Hrossey on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy The original uploader was Polarmog at English Wikipedia., reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 2000 |
| 11,671 |