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Largest in this registry
#16,241
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#30
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
MS Gabriella is a cruiseferry sailing on a route connecting Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden for Viking Line. She was built in 1992 in Brodosplit, Croatia as Frans Suell for service with Euroway. Between 1994 and 1997 she sailed as Silja Scandinavia for Silja Line.
Gabriella has sister ships Mega Victoria operated by Corsica Ferries, Isabelle operated by Tallink, and a third one, Crown Seaways, operated by DFDS Seaways.
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 35,285 gross tons, Gabriella is the 16,241st 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 5.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 30th by tonnage — larger than 97% 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.
Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Gabriella is the 18th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 32 ferrys flying the Finland flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
Gabriella was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 178th 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 105 vessels to Brodosplit, with a median tonnage of 27,539 GT, delivered between 1954 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 169.4 m overall, Gabriella is 65.4 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 28.2 m and a draft of 6.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8917601 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1989 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.
Its IMO number, 8917601, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 6×3 + 0×2 = 161 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Viking XPRS | 2007 | 35,918 |
| MS Nordic Crown | 1994 | 35,498 |
| MS Bahamas Celebration | 1981 | 35,483 |
| Gabriella (this ship) | 1992 | 35,285 |
| MS Mega Victoria | 1988 | 34,384 |
| Suzuran | 2012 | 34,326 |
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 MS Gabriella on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Antti Havukainen, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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