Ferry
Nissos Samos
Operator on record: Shin Nihonkai Ferry (1988–2004)
Photo: Ppoulous · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#18,879
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest ferry
#54
of 882 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
About Nissos Samos
Nissos Samos (Νήσος Σάμος , Nísos Sámos ) is a ferry operated by the Greek company Hellenic Seaways. Built in 1988 at the IHI shipyard in Kure for the Japanese company Shin Nihonkai Ferry, it originally operated between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido under the name New Akashia (ニューあかしあ, Nyū Akashia ) . Sold in 2004 to the Greek company Endeavor Lines, it was initially renamed Ionian Glory and then finally Ionian Queen, sailing on routes between Greece and Italy until 2012, when its owner went bankrupt. Laid up for approximately three years in Patras, it was eventually bought by the Hellenic Seaways company, which renamed it Nissos Samos. It currently sails in the Aegean Sea and serves the North Aegean.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
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
- IMO number
- 8712635
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 241470000
- Call sign
- SVAI7
- Flag state
- Japan
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Ferry
- Builder
- IHI Corporation
- Yard number
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 1988
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Shin Nihonkai Ferry (1988–2004)
- Operator on record
- Shin Nihonkai Ferry (1988–2004)
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 30,694
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 193.0 m
- Beam
- 29.4 m
- Draft
- 6.7 m
- Service speed
- 21.8 kn
- Passenger capacity
- 2,213
In context
How Nissos Samos compares
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 30,694 gross tons, Nissos Samos is the 18,879th 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 5.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 54th by tonnage — larger than 94% 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.
Japan is the country of registry for 2,663 vessels in this directory, of which Nissos Samos is the 283rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,534 ships), and the median vessel measures 764 GT. Browse every ship flagged Japan.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 241 ferrys flying the Japan flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Nissos Samos was built in 1988, making it 38 years old. It is one of 920 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,512 GT; within it this ship is the 92nd largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 40 vessels to IHI Corporation, with a median tonnage of 40,390 GT, delivered between 1960 and 2012. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 193.0 m overall, Nissos Samos is 89.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 29.4 m and a draft of 6.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8712635 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1988 and which range from 1987 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1988.
Its IMO number, 8712635, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 6×3 + 3×2 = 135 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among ferrys
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS King Seaways | 1987 | 31,360 |
| Méditerranée | 1989 | 30,985 |
| Ariadne | 1996 | 30,882 |
| Nissos Samos (this ship) | 1988 | 30,694 |
| Ocean | 1991 | 30,413 |
| GNV Azzurra | 1981 | 30,317 |
| Ile Rouge | 2002 | 30,285 |
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at IHI Corporation
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
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Nissos Samos on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Ppoulous, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.