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Cruise ship

Borealis

IMO 9122552MMSI 246167000Call sign PDGSNetherlandsBuilt 1997

Operated by Holland America Line

Photo: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#7,691

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest cruise ship

#216

of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Largest in its fleet

#10

of 19 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage

In brief

About Borealis

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Borealis is a cruise ship of Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, sailing since July 2021. She was built as MS Rotterdam and was the co-flagship for Holland America Line, for which she operated for 22 years.

Quoted from MS Borealis on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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: 9122552

In context

How Borealis 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 61,849 gross tons, Borealis is the 7,691st 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 10 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 216th by tonnage — larger than 57% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.

Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which Borealis is the 31st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 cruise ships flying the Netherlands flag, of which 9 are larger by tonnage.

Borealis was built in 1997, making it 29 years old. It is one of 1,319 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,388 GT; within it this ship is the 96th 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 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 237.5 m overall, Borealis is 39.4 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 8.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9122552 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1994 to 1997. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1997.

Its IMO number, 9122552, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 2×5 + 2×4 + 5×3 + 5×2 = 112 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.