At 12,488 gross tons, Dubai is the 32,894th 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 2.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 311 yachts held here, it ranks 7th by tonnage — larger than 98% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,352 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 5,565 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Cayman Islands (101 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Lürssen, with 27 hulls on record.
United Arab Emirates is the country of registry for 272 vessels in this directory, of which Dubai is the 21st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (169 ships), and the median vessel measures 686 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Arab Emirates.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 yachts flying the United Arab Emirates flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
Dubai was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 891st 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 88 vessels to Blohm+Voss, with a median tonnage of 6,876 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 162.0 m overall, Dubai is 96.8 m longer than the 65.2 m median for yachts on record, with a beam of 22.4 m and a draft of 5.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1006324 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1969 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 1006324, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 1×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 3×3 + 2×2 = 44 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
