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Largest in this registry
#16,950
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#38
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Moby Dada was a cruiseferry operated by Moby Lines. She was built in 1981 as Finlandia for Effoa at Wärtsilä's Perno shipyard in Turku, Finland, and placed in service on Silja Line's Helsinki—Stockholm service. In 1990 she was sold to DFDS Seaways and renamed Queen of Scandinavia. From 2010 until 2016, she operated under the name of Princess Maria for St. Peter Line between Helsinki and St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 2016, following the purchase of St. Peter Line by Moby Lines, Princess Maria was renamed Moby Dada and was transferred to the Italian registry in November 2016, before being transferred to Moby Lines' operations on the Mediterranean Sea.
On 13 March 2025, the sale for scrapping to the Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard was announced.
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 33,575 gross tons, Moby Dada is the 16,950th 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 5.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 38th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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 Moby Dada is the 174th 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 8 are larger by tonnage.
Moby Dada was built in 1981, making it 45 years old. It is one of 1,653 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,186 GT; within it this ship is the 158th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 118 vessels to Wärtsilä, with a median tonnage of 14,058 GT, delivered between 1938 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 166.1 m overall, Moby Dada is 62.1 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 28.5 m and a draft of 6.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7911533 this registry holds 34 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1979 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1981.
Its IMO number, 7911533, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 1×4 + 5×3 + 3×2 = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS Stena Saga | 1981 | 33,750 |
| Finnfellow | 2000 | 33,724 |
| Elyros | 1998 | 33,635 |
| Moby Dada (this ship) | 1981 | 33,575 |
| MS GNV Cristal | 1989 | 33,336 |
| Majestic | 1993 | 33,057 |
| Finnjet |
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.

Celestyal Olympia
1982 · 37,584 GT · Malta

MS Stena Saga
1981 · 33,750 GT · Finland

MS Regina Baltica
1980 · 18,345 GT · Cyprus

Wasa Express
1981 · 17,089 GT · Finland

MS Anemos
1980 · 16,850 GT · Finland

Norilsk
1982 · 16,500 GT · Cyprus

M/S Cristal
1980 · 14,330 GT · Malta

Kapitan Dranitsyn
1980 · 12,919 GT · Russia
Provenance
| 1977 |
| 32,975 |