At 47,994 gross tons, Spirit of Tasmania IV is the 10,309th 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 8.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 877 ro-ros held here, it ranks 51st by tonnage — larger than 94% 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 IV is the 17th 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 none is larger than Spirit of Tasmania IV.
Spirit of Tasmania IV was built in 2024, making it 2 years old. It is one of 116 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,985 GT; within it this ship is the 35th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 5 vessels to Rauma Marine Constructions, with a median tonnage of 47,994 GT, delivered between 2018 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 212.1 m overall, Spirit of Tasmania IV is 87.2 m longer than the 125.0 m median for ro-ros on record, with a beam of 31.0 m and a draft of 7.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9936587 this registry holds 10 other vessels, whose median build year is 2024 and which range from 2022 to 2026. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2024.
Its IMO number, 9936587, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 9×6 + 3×5 + 6×4 + 5×3 + 8×2 = 187 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
