Utopia

At 26,906 gross tons, Utopia is the 21,800th 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 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 79th by tonnage — larger than 91% 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 Utopia is the 289th 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 6 are larger by tonnage.

Utopia was built in 1987, making it 39 years old. It is one of 819 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,937 GT; within it this ship is the 117th 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 184.5 m overall, Utopia is 80.5 m longer than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8604266 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1987 and which range from 1986 to 1990. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1987.

Its IMO number, 8604266, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 4×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.