Hero of the Seas

At 250,800 gross tons, Hero of the Seas is the 5th 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 42 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 1st by tonnage — larger than 100% 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 Hero of the Seas is the 1st 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 none is larger than Hero of the Seas.

Hero of the Seas was built in 2027, making it -1 years old. It is one of 1 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 250,800 GT; within it this ship is the 1st largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 55 vessels to Meyer Turku, with a median tonnage of 10,834 GT, delivered between 1951 and 2027. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 365.0 m overall, Hero of the Seas is 166.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1083023 this registry holds 5 other vessels, whose median build year is 2026. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.