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Ferry

MS GNV Cristal

IMO 8712518MMSI 247163900Call sign IBUBItalyBuilt 1989

Operator on record: 1989–1994: Olau Line

Photo: RealCarlo · CC BY 2.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#17,025

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest ferry

#39

of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Fleet rank

—

No operator attributed to this ship

In brief

About MS GNV Cristal

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MS GNV Cristal is a cruiseferry owned by the Italy-based SNAV and operated by their Grandi Navi Veloci brand. She was built in 1989 by Schichau Seebeckwerft in Bremerhaven, West Germany as MS Olau Hollandia for Olau Line. From 1994 to 2005 she sailed as MS Pride of Le Havre for P&O Ferries. From 2005 to 2017 she operated as the SNAV Sardegna between Civitavecchia, Palermo and Olbia.

Quoted from GNV Cristal on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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

In context

How MS GNV Cristal compares

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 33,336 gross tons, MS GNV Cristal is the 17,025th 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 39th 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 MS GNV Cristal is the 175th 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 9 are larger by tonnage.

MS GNV Cristal was built in 1989, making it 37 years old. It is one of 1,131 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,938 GT; within it this ship is the 129th 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 97 vessels to Schichau Seebeckwerft, with a median tonnage of 16,236 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2011. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 161.0 m overall, MS GNV Cristal is 57.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 29.0 m and a draft of 6.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8712518 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1989.

Its IMO number, 8712518, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.