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Cruise ship
Operator on record: Bridgemans Floatel, Ex Manager: International Shipping Partners
Photo: BluesyPete · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#38,420
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#401
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
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No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Diamond XI was a cruise ship renamed in 2024, previously operated by Quark Expeditions as Ocean Diamond. She was previously named Song of Flower, Explorer Starship and Le Diamant.
In late 2011, Compagnie du Ponant sold the ship to investors who transferred the ship to Quark Expeditions. Quark has operated the ship as the Ocean Diamond since November 2012. In August 2024, the Diamond XI was seen beached in Aliağa, Turkey for scrap.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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 8,282 gross tons, Le Diamant is the 38,420th 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 the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 401st by tonnage — larger than 20% 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 Le Diamant is the 1,289th 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 112 are larger by tonnage.
Le Diamant was built in 1974, making it 52 years old. It is one of 2,111 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,681 GT; within it this ship is the 579th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 17 vessels to Kristiansands Mek. Verksted, with a median tonnage of 4,165 GT, delivered between 1886 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 124.2 m overall, Le Diamant is 73.9 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 16.0 m and a draft of 4.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7325629 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 1973 and which range from 1971 to 1974. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1974.
Its IMO number, 7325629, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 3×6 + 2×5 + 5×4 + 6×3 + 2×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| SS Dolphin IV | 1956 | 8,854 |
| Heritage Adventurer | 1991 | 8,378 |
| Turama | 1990 | 8,343 |
| Le Diamant (this ship) | 1974 | 8,282 |
| Ocean Victory | 2021 | 8,228 |
| IMO 9883194 | 2021 | 8,228 |
| Berlin |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Ocean Diamond on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy BluesyPete, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1980 |
| 7,812 |