La Superba

At 49,257 gross tons, La Superba is the 10,078th 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 8.2 times 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 5,458th by tonnage — larger than 89% 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.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which La Superba is the 122nd 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 488 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Italy flag, of which 50 are larger by tonnage.

La Superba 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 208th 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 36 vessels to Nuovi Cantieri Apuania, with a median tonnage of 13,219 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 211.0 m overall, La Superba is 96.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 30.4 m and a draft of 7.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9214276 this registry holds 76 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 2002.

Its IMO number, 9214276, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 7×2 = 116 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.