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Cruise ship
Operated by Royal Caribbean International
Photo: J. Glover · CC BY-SA 2.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#6,356
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#180
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#30
of 38 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Grandeur of the Seas is a Vision-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International. Features include a full-service spa, six whirlpools, an outdoor jogging track and a number of bars and restaurants. It was announced on 16 October 2019 that Grandeur of the Seas would be transferred in the second quarter of 2021 to Pullmantur Cruises, in which Royal Caribbean had a 49% stake in at the time. These plans were cancelled in mid-2020. It is currently the oldest and smallest ship still operating for Royal Caribbean.
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 73,817 gross tons, MS Grandeur of the Seas is the 6,356th 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 12 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 180th by tonnage — larger than 64% 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 MS Grandeur of the Seas is the 303rd 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 57 are larger by tonnage.
MS Grandeur of the Seas was built in 1996, making it 30 years old. It is one of 1,254 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,254 GT; within it this ship is the 87th 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 46 vessels to Kvaerner Masa-Yards, with a median tonnage of 70,367 GT, delivered between 1990 and 2004. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 279.0 m overall, MS Grandeur of the Seas is 80.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 36.0 m and a draft of 7.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9102978 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 1995 and which range from 1993 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1996.
Its IMO number, 9102978, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 7×2 = 118 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Majesty of the Oceans | 1992 | 74,077 |
| Monarch | 1991 | 73,937 |
| Explora III | 2026 | 73,904 |
| MS Grandeur of the Seas (this ship) | 1996 | 73,817 |
| MS Sovereign | 1987 | 73,529 |
| Marella Explorer 2 | 1995 | 72,458 |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS Rhapsody of the Seas | 9116864 | The Bahamas | 1997 | 78,878 |
| MS Vision of the Seas | 9116876 | The Bahamas | 1998 | 78,717 |
| Marella Discovery | 9070632 | Norway | 2016 | 69,472 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Grandeur of the Seas on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy J. Glover, reused under CC BY-SA 2.0.
| 1998 |
| 71,909 |