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Ferry
Operator on record: 1973–1976: Lion Ferry AB / Öresundsbolaget
Photo: VollwertBIT · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#32,872
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#213
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
MV Logos Hope is a ship operated by the German faith-based organisation GBA Ships in partnership with Operation Mobilisation (OM), functioning as the world's largest floating book fair. She was built in 1973 as the ferry MV Gustav Vasa for service between Malmö (Sweden) and Travemünde (Germany) and later operated as the MV Norröna providing a ferry service to the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Following extensive renovations, she entered service as Logos Hope in February 2009.
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 12,519 gross tons, MV Logos Hope is the 32,872nd 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 213th by tonnage — larger than 76% 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.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which MV Logos Hope is the 1,696th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 ferrys flying the Malta flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
MV Logos Hope was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 423rd largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 68 vessels to Nobiskrug, with a median tonnage of 4,182 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2015. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 132.5 m overall, MV Logos Hope is 28.5 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 21.1 m and a draft of 5.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7302914 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1972 to 1974. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.
Its IMO number, 7302914, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 1×2 = 104 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MV Kennicott | 1998 | 12,635 |
| Aratere | 1998 | 12,596 |
| MS Georg Ots | 1980 | 12,549 |
| MV Logos Hope (this ship) | 1973 | 12,519 |
| Massimo M | 1975 | 12,494 |
| Sunflower Kirishima | 1993 | 12,418 |
| Sunflower Satsuma |
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.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Logos Hope on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy VollwertBIT, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1993 |
| 12,415 |