At 29,067 gross tons, Spirit of Tasmania I is the 20,596th 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 4.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 112th by tonnage — larger than 86% of that group. Their median tonnage is 7,395 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 34,011 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Italy (62 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, with 16 hulls on record.
Australia is the country of registry for 466 vessels in this directory, of which Spirit of Tasmania I is the 22nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (351 ships), and the median vessel measures 439 GT. Browse every ship flagged Australia.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 11 ro-ros flying the Australia flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
Spirit of Tasmania I was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 259th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 46 vessels to Kvaerner Masa-Yards, with a median tonnage of 70,367 GT, delivered between 1990 and 2004. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 195.0 m overall, Spirit of Tasmania I is 70.0 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 25.0 m and a draft of 6.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9158446 this registry holds 64 other vessels, whose median build year is 1998 and which range from 1996 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9158446, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 4×2 = 146 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
