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Operator on record: (1995–2012): Corsica Ferries / Sardinia Ferries
Photo: MakibaLL · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#49,547
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#28,268
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Bellone is a 103-metre high-speed monohull passenger and vehicle ferry built by Rodriquez Cantieri Navali in 1995 as part of the Aquastrada TMV 103 series. Originally entering service for Corsica Ferries / Sardinia Ferries as Corsica Express, she operated fast Tyrrhenian crossings primarily as Sardinia Express (1997–2012). Following her Mediterranean career, the vessel served various Asian routes under the names Tamnara, Araqueens, Blue Tsushima, and New Mikasa before being renamed Bellone in 2024.
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 3,560 gross tons, HSC Bellone is the 49,547th 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 1.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 28,268th by tonnage — larger than 43% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which HSC Bellone is the 7,774th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5,698 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Panama flag, of which 4,515 are larger by tonnage.
HSC Bellone was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 673rd 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 20 vessels to Rodriquez Cantieri Navali, with a median tonnage of 391 GT, delivered between 1961 and 2005. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 103.5 m overall, HSC Bellone is 11.5 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 14.5 m and a draft of 2.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9108245 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.
Its IMO number, 9108245, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Grimm | 1992 | 3,564 |
| Bideford | 1910 | 3,562 |
| Wilson Flushing | 2012 | 3,561 |
| HSC Bellone (this ship) | 1995 | 3,560 |
| L'Atalante | 1990 | 3,559 |
| He Xin | 1981 | 3,557 |
| Stril Myster |
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 HSC Bellone on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy MakibaLL, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 2003 |
| 3,557 |