At 46,052 gross tons, Carnival Holiday is the 10,783rd 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 7.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 249th by tonnage — larger than 51% 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.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Carnival Holiday is the 513th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 133 cruise ships flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 69 are larger by tonnage.
Carnival Holiday was built in 1985, making it 41 years old. It is one of 1,312 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,782 GT; within it this ship is the 60th 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 75 vessels to Aalborg Shipyard, with a median tonnage of 9,021 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 221.6 m overall, Carnival Holiday is 23.4 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 28.0 m and a draft of 7.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8217881 this registry holds 42 other vessels, whose median build year is 1983 and which range from 1982 to 1985. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1985.
Its IMO number, 8217881, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 7×4 + 8×3 + 8×2 = 141 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
