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Largest in this registry
#25,188
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#319
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 1 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS Deutschland (starting in 2015 also sailing as World Odyssey from September until April each year) is a cruise ship launched in 1998 and owned and operated by Peter Deilmann Cruises until 2015. She is decorated in the 1920s style as it could be seen in SS Columbus of Norddeutscher Lloyd. The ship can carry up to 650 passengers and 260 crew members. She has a gross tonnage of 22,496 and has seven passenger accessible decks.
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 22,400 gross tons, MS Deutschland is the 25,188th 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 3.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 319th by tonnage — larger than 37% 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.
Germany is the country of registry for 885 vessels in this directory, of which MS Deutschland is the 97th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (446 ships), and the median vessel measures 916 GT. Browse every ship flagged Germany.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 cruise ships flying the Germany flag, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
MS Deutschland was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 391st 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 210 vessels to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, with a median tonnage of 30,285 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 175.5 m overall, MS Deutschland is 22.6 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 23.0 m and a draft of 5.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9141807 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1991 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9141807, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 4×5 + 1×4 + 8×3 + 0×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MV Explorer | 2001 | 24,318 |
| SS Chusan | 1950 | 24,215 |
| Aegean Paradise | 1990 | 23,287 |
| MS Deutschland (this ship) | 1998 | 22,400 |
| RMS Ivernia | 1955 | 22,296 |
| Marco Polo | 1965 | 22,080 |
| Regal Empress |
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.
ZIM Iberia
1997 · 41,507 GT
IMO 9139907
1997 · 41,507 GT · Panama
Zhonggu liao ning
1997 · 41,507 GT · People's Republic of China
Zim Jamaica
1997 · 41,507 GT · Liberia
Katharina P
1997 · 41,507 GT · Liberia
Dole Chile
1999 · 31,779 GT · The Bahamas
IMO 9185293
1999 · 31,779 GT · The Bahamas
MSC Caitlin
1998 · 25,219 GT · Liberia
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MS Deutschland on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Morn, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 1953 |
| 21,909 |