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Largest in this registry
#21,801
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest passenger vessel
#8
of 490 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#8
of 17 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
GNV Sealand is a 186.36-metre Ro-Pax ferry owned by Visentini and operated under long-term charter by Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV). Built in 2009 by Cantiere Navale Visentini in Porto Viro, Italy, she was originally delivered as Scottish Viking for Norfolkline (later operated by DFDS Seaways and Stena Line) before being renamed GNV Sealand in 2021. Powered by two MAN-B&W 9L48/60B diesel engines producing 21,600 kW, she reaches service speeds up to 24 knots, primarily operating on Mediterranean routes connecting mainland Italy with Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain.
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 26,904 gross tons, GNV Sealand is the 21,801st 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 4.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 617 passenger vessels held here, it ranks 8th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 909 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 9,718 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Egypt (65 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Meyer Werft, with 16 hulls on record.
Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which GNV Sealand is the 223rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 passenger vessels flying the Italy flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
GNV Sealand was built in 2009, making it 17 years old. It is one of 2,834 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,673 GT; within it this ship is the 1,012th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 13 vessels to Cantiere Navale Visentini, with a median tonnage of 26,904 GT, delivered between 2001 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 186.0 m overall, GNV Sealand is 125.0 m longer than the 61.0 m median for passenger vessels on record, with a beam of 25.6 m and a draft of 6.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9435454 this registry holds 59 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2007 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2009.
Its IMO number, 9435454, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 3×5 + 5×4 + 4×3 + 5×2 = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among passenger vessels
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit of France | 2011 | 47,592 |
| AIDAcara | 1996 | 38,531 |
| Jean Nicoli | 1998 | 29,968 |
| GNV Sealand (this ship) | 2009 | 26,904 |
| Empress of Japan | 1930 | 26,313 |
| Sorrento | 2003 | 26,000 |
| Villa Vie Odyssey |
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
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from GNV Sealand on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Stena Line, reused under CC BY 3.0.
| 1993 |
| 24,344 |