Nissos Samos

At 30,694 gross tons, Nissos Samos is the 18,879th 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 5.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 54th by tonnage — larger than 94% 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.

Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Nissos Samos is the 283rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 241 ferrys flying the Japan flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

Nissos Samos was built in 1988, making it 38 years old. It is one of 920 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,512 GT; within it this ship is the 92nd 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 40 vessels to IHI Corporation, with a median tonnage of 40,390 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 193.0 m overall, Nissos Samos is 89.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 29.4 m and a draft of 6.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8712635 this registry holds 50 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 1988.

Its IMO number, 8712635, 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 + 6×3 + 3×2 = 135 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.