At 30,277 gross tons, MS Insignia is the 19,079th 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 5.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 283rd by tonnage — larger than 43% 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.
Marshall Islands is the country of registry for 3,838 vessels in this directory, of which MS Insignia is the 2,124th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,407 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,987 GT. Browse every ship flagged Marshall Islands.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 14 cruise ships flying the Marshall Islands flag, of which 6 are larger by tonnage.
MS Insignia 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 245th 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 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 180.4 m overall, MS Insignia is 17.7 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 25.7 m and a draft of 6.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9156462 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2002. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9156462, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 5×5 + 6×4 + 4×3 + 6×2 = 142 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
