Kungsholm

Sweden is the country of registry for 370 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (195 ships), and the median vessel measures 972 GT. Browse every ship flagged Sweden.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 cruise ships flying the Sweden flag.

Kungsholm was built in 1953, making it 73 years old. It is one of 179 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,502 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 8 vessels to Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, with a median tonnage of 11,554 GT, delivered between 1953 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 182.9 m overall, Kungsholm is 15.3 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 23.5 m and a draft of 8.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5197664 this registry holds 8 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1914 to 1961. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1953.

Its IMO number, 5197664, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 7×4 + 6×3 + 6×2 = 144 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.