Mistral

At 10,471 gross tons, Mistral is the 35,144th 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 331st by tonnage — larger than 58% 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.

Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Mistral is the 58th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 30 ro-ros flying the Finland flag, of which 22 are larger by tonnage.

Mistral was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 551st 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 533 vessels to Pella Sietas, with a median tonnage of 3,999 GT, delivered between 1914 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 153.4 m overall, Mistral is 28.5 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9183788 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1997 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.

Its IMO number, 9183788, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 8×5 + 3×4 + 7×3 + 8×2 = 158 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.