Explorer

At 2,398 gross tons, Explorer is the 55,604th 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 2.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 462nd by tonnage — larger than 8% 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.

Liberia is the country of registry for 4,741 vessels in this directory, of which Explorer is the 4,552nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,739 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,983 GT. Browse every ship flagged Liberia.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 cruise ships flying the Liberia flag, of which none is larger than Explorer.

Explorer was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT; within it this ship is the 220th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 1 vessels to Uudenkaupungin Telakka, Uusikaupunki, Finland, with a median tonnage of 2,398 GT, delivered between 1969 and 1969. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 72.9 m overall, Explorer is 125.3 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 14.0 m and a draft of 4.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6924959 this registry holds 10 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1957 to 1972. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 6924959, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 9×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 9×3 + 5×2 = 159 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.