At 33,829 gross tons, MS Mega Smeralda is the 16,887th 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 33rd 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 Mega Smeralda is the 171st 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 7 are larger by tonnage.
MS Mega Smeralda was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 122nd 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 168.4 m overall, MS Mega Smeralda is 64.4 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 27.6 m and a draft of 6.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8306486 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1984 and which range from 1983 to 1989. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.
Its IMO number, 8306486, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 4×3 + 8×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
