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Largest in this registry
#48,785
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#447
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#5
of 5 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS Regula is a passenger and vehicle ferry built in Germany by Meyer Werft and launched in 1971. She was initially operated by LB ferries on the Helsingør–Helsingborg ferry route between Denmark and Sweden. Regula was the second of three identical sister vessels, and had an initial capacity of 800 passengers and 75 cars.
After 26 years of service in Scandinavia, in 1997 Regula was sold to Saaremaa Shipping Company of Estonia to serve its routes between the Estonian mainland and the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea.
Both Regula and operations on the island routes were taken over by TS Laevad in 2016. Since the introduction of new, larger ferries on the routes in 2017, Regula has been used primarily as a reserve ferry.
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 3,774 gross tons, Regula is the 48,785th 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 1.6 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 447th by tonnage — larger than 49% 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.
Estonia is the country of registry for 81 vessels in this directory, of which Regula is the 16th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (50 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Estonia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 6 ferrys flying the Estonia flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Regula was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 698th 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 160 vessels to Meyer Werft, with a median tonnage of 16,324 GT, delivered between 1902 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 72.0 m overall, Regula is 32.0 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 16.3 m and a draft of 4.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7051058 this registry holds 30 other vessels, whose median build year is 1971 and which range from 1927 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.
Its IMO number, 7051058, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 5×5 + 1×4 + 0×3 + 5×2 = 88 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Mljet | 2014 | 3,827 |
| Roi Léopold III | 1956 | 3,794 |
| Kobe Maru | 1991 | 3,780 |
| Regula (this ship) | 1971 | 3,774 |
| L'Estuaire | 2009 | 3,705 |
| Tysfjord | 1993 | 3,695 |
| MF Sulafjord |
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.
Same fleet
Provenance
| 1986 |
| 3,692 |