Marella Dream

At 54,763 gross tons, Marella Dream is the 8,993rd 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 9.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 228th by tonnage — larger than 55% 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.

Marella Dream was built in 1986, making it 40 years old. It is one of 866 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,769 GT; within it this ship is the 39th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 160 vessels to Meyer Werft, with a median tonnage of 16,324 GT, delivered between 1902 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 243.2 m overall, Marella Dream is 45.1 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 29.7 m and a draft of 7.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8407735 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1984 to 1987. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1986.

Its IMO number, 8407735, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 4×6 + 0×5 + 7×4 + 7×3 + 3×2 = 135 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.