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Cruise ship

Hebridean Sky

IMO 8802882MMSI 311000253Call sign C6BG2The BahamasBuilt 1991

Operator on record: Salén Ship Management

Photo: Strober · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Largest in this registry

#46,976

of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage

Largest cruise ship

#438

of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage

Fleet rank

—

No operator attributed to this ship

In brief

About Hebridean Sky

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Hebridean Sky is a cruise ship owned by London-based cruise company Noble Caledonia. As an ice-rated vessel she has operated as an expedition cruise ship in Antarctica and in the Arctic. She was also known under the names Renaissance VII, Regina Renaissance, Renai I, Sun, Island Sun, Corinthian II, Sea Explorer, Sea Explorer I.
In the early 1990s the Renaissance Cruises company commissioned eight small cruise ships, all of which were given numeric names in the form of Roman figures (from I to VIII). The second group of four identical sister ships, V - VIII, was built in a different yard, and had increased capabilities. Originally named Renaissance VII, Hebridean Sky was the third ship of the second group.
Designed to operate in almost any place of the world, this ship accommodated up to 120 passengers in 59 cabins. The lounge and dining room were both large enough to welcome all passengers at one time. There were also other facilities, such as swimming pool and nightclub.
In 1992 Renaissance VII was chartered by a tour company, Raymond & White, and was renamed Regina Renaissance, cruising for several years in the Caribbean. The charter ended in 1998, and ship was returned to her original name and changed her itinerary for cruising in the Mediterranean in summer and in the Indian Ocean in winter, being presented mainly in North American and European markets.

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: 8802882
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI: 311000253
Call sign: C6BG2
Flag state: The Bahamas
Port of registry: —
Vessel class: Renaissance-class cruise ship
Status: in service

Construction

Type: Cruise ship
Builder: Nuovi Cantieri Apuania
Yard number
Launched: —
Year built: 1991
Designed to carry: —
Owner: Salén Ship Management
Operator on record: —

Measurements

Gross tonnage: 4,200
Net tonnage: —
Displacement: —
Length overall: 91.0 m
Beam: 16.0 m
Draft: 4.3 m
Service speed: —
Passenger capacity: 120

In context

How Hebridean Sky 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 4,200 gross tons, Hebridean Sky is the 46,976th 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 1.4 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 438th by tonnage — larger than 13% 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 Hebridean Sky is the 1,418th 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 124 are larger by tonnage.

Hebridean Sky was built in 1991, making it 35 years old. It is one of 1,166 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,997 GT; within it this ship is the 464th 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 36 vessels to Nuovi Cantieri Apuania, with a median tonnage of 13,219 GT, delivered between 1964 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 91.0 m overall, Hebridean Sky is 107.1 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 16.0 m and a draft of 4.3 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8802882 this registry holds 27 other vessels, whose median build year is 1989 and which range from 1987 to 1994. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1991.

Its IMO number, 8802882, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 8×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 8×3 + 8×2 = 152 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships

Ship	Built	Gross tonnage
SeaDream II	1985	4,253
MV Lyubov Orlova	1976	4,251
«Silver Galapagos»	1990	4,203
Hebridean Sky (this ship)	1991	4,200
MV Corinthian	1990	4,077
EasyCruiseOne	1990	4,077

Hebridean Sky

About Hebridean Sky

Identification and dimensions

How Hebridean Sky compares

Sister ships in the Renaissance-class cruise ship class

Where this page comes from

Ship	IMO	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage
Sea Spirit	8802868	The Bahamas	1991	4,200
Island Sky	8802894	The Bahamas	1992	4,200