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Ferry
Operator on record: (2001–2012): Minoan Lines
Photo: Periperi99 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#15,109
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#24
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Knossos Palace (Greek: Κνωσός Παλάς, Knosós Palás) is a fast ferry of the Greek company Minoan Lines. Built in 2001 at the Fincantieri shipyards in Sestri Ponente on the outskirts of Genoa, it was originally named Olympia Palace (Greek: Ευρώπη Παλάς, Evrópi Palás). Commissioned in December 2001, initially operating on routes between Greece and Italy, it was then chartered in 2012 by the Italian company Tirrenia, which used it between mainland Italy and Sardinia under the name Bonaria. At the end of this charter in 2018, it joined the fleet of Grimaldi Lines, the parent company of Minoan Lines. Renamed Cruise Bonaria, it sailed on the Sardinian routes under the Grimaldi banner. In December 2020, it was exchanged with the ship Knossos Palace, it regained the latter's name and rejoined the fleet of its original company Minoan Lines, which now employed it on the routes connecting Piraeus and Crete.
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 36,825 gross tons, Knossos Palace is the 15,109th 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 6.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 24th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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 Knossos Palace is the 160th 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 5 are larger by tonnage.
Knossos Palace was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 306th 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 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 213.0 m overall, Knossos Palace is 109.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 26.4 m and a draft of 7.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9220330 this registry holds 53 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9220330, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 3×3 + 3×2 = 100 — 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 ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Mega Serena | 1987 | 39,191 |
| MS Stena Spirit | 1983 | 39,178 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 1996 | 37,987 |
| Knossos Palace (this ship) | 2001 | 36,825 |
| MS Pascal Lota | 2008 | 36,400 |
| MS Dunkerque Seaways | 2005 | 35,923 |
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.

Carnival Conquest
2002 · 110,000 GT · Panama

Pacific Encounter
2002 · 108,977 GT · Bermuda
Pacific Adventure
2001 · 108,806 GT · United Kingdom

Carnival Radiance
2000 · 101,509 GT · Panama

MS Zuiderdam
2002 · 82,820 GT · Netherlands

MV Queen of the Oceans
2000 · 77,000 GT · Bermuda

MS Bolette
2000 · 62,735 GT · The Bahamas

MS Zaandam
2000 · 61,396 GT · Netherlands
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MS Knossos Palace on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Periperi99, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| Viking XPRS |
| 2007 |
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