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Largest in this registry
#2,016
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#72
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#6
of 29 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Carnival Dream is a cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She is the lead ship of her namesake class, which includes Carnival Magic, Carnival Breeze, and Costa Diadema. Built by Fincantieri at its Monfalcone shipyard in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northern Italy, she was floated out on October 24, 2008, and christened by Marcia Gay Harden.
At 128,250 GT, Carnival Dream was once the largest Carnival Cruise Ship. It lost this title to Carnival Magic, when she was introduced in 2011.
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 130,000 gross tons, Carnival Dream is the 2,016th 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 22 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 72nd by tonnage — larger than 85% 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.
Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Carnival Dream is the 312th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 43 cruise ships flying the Panama flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.
Carnival Dream 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 86th 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 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 306.0 m overall, Carnival Dream is 107.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 35.3 m and a draft of 8.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9378474 this registry holds 81 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2005 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, 9378474, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 7×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 7×2 = 174 — 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 cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Carnival Vista | 2016 | 133,500 |
| Costa Diadema | 2014 | 133,019 |
| Celebrity Edge | 2018 | 130,818 |
| Carnival Dream (this ship) | 2009 | 130,000 |
| Disney Fantasy | 2012 | 129,750 |
| Disney Dream | 2010 | 128,000 |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnival Magic | 9378486 | Panama | 2011 | 130,000 |
| Carnival Breeze | 9555723 | Panama | 2012 | 130,000 |
| Costa Diadema | 9636888 | Italy | 2014 | 133,019 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Carnival Dream on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Kiran891, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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