At 28,891 gross tons, MS Kungsholm is the 20,675th 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 4.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 292nd by tonnage — larger than 42% 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 Kungsholm is the 812th 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 84 are larger by tonnage.
MS Kungsholm was built in 1966, making it 60 years old. It is one of 440 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 839 GT; within it this ship is the 9th largest. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 27 vessels to John Brown & Company, with a median tonnage of 21,370 GT, delivered between 1936 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 201.2 m overall, MS Kungsholm is 3.1 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 26.6 m and a draft of 8.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6512354 this registry holds 7 other vessels, whose median build year is 1965 and which range from 1965 to 1966. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1966.
Its IMO number, 6512354, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 5×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 104 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
