At 47,592 gross tons, Spirit of Britain is the 10,428th 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 7.9 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 9th by tonnage — larger than 99% 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.
Cyprus is the country of registry for 1,418 vessels in this directory, of which Spirit of Britain is the 146th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (915 ships), and the median vessel measures 15,666 GT. Browse every ship flagged Cyprus.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 ferrys flying the Cyprus flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
Spirit of Britain was built in 2011, making it 15 years old. It is one of 2,848 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 23,456 GT; within it this ship is the 661st largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 37 vessels to STX Finland, with a median tonnage of 5,077 GT, delivered between 1956 and 2015. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 212.0 m overall, Spirit of Britain is 108.0 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 30.8 m and a draft of 6.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9524231 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2008 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2011.
Its IMO number, 9524231, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 5×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 3×2 = 131 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
