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Largest in this registry
#4,548
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#139
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 9 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS Queen Elizabeth is a cruise ship of the Vista class operated by the Cunard. The design is modified compared to earlier ships of the same class, and slightly larger than Queen Victoria, at 92,000 GT.
The ship's name was announced by Cunard on 10 October 2007. Since the retirement of Queen Elizabeth 2 in 2008 the company has operated four vessels. The naming of the ship as Queen Elizabeth brings about a situation similar to that between 1940 and 1948, when Cunard's original Queen Elizabeth was in service at the same time as the Royal Navy battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth. In July 2017 the RMS Queen Elizabeth encountered the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at Invergordon when the latter returned to port to address a propulsion issue that occurred during her sea trials.
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 90,900 gross tons, MS Queen Elizabeth is the 4,548th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 139th by tonnage — larger than 73% 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.
Bermuda is the country of registry for 177 vessels in this directory, of which MS Queen Elizabeth is the 75th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (80 ships), and the median vessel measures 77,277 GT. Browse every ship flagged Bermuda.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 26 cruise ships flying the Bermuda flag, of which 16 are larger by tonnage.
MS Queen Elizabeth was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 292nd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 294.0 m overall, MS Queen Elizabeth is 95.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 7.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9477438 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 2010 and which range from 2006 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.
Its IMO number, 9477438, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 7×5 + 7×4 + 4×3 + 3×2 = 168 — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celebrity Millennium | 2000 | 90,963 |
| Celebrity Infinity | 2001 | 90,940 |
| Celebrity Summit | 2001 | 90,940 |
| MS Queen Elizabeth (this ship) | 2010 | 90,900 |
| Celebrity Constellation | 2002 | 90,280 |
| MS Radiance of the Seas | 2001 | 90,090 |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS Zuiderdam | 9221279 | Netherlands | 2002 | 82,820 |
| Oosterdam | 9221281 | Netherlands | 2003 | 82,820 |
| MS Westerdam | 9226891 | Netherlands | 2004 | 82,862 |
| Arcadia | 9226906 | Bermuda | 2005 | 84,342 |
| MS Noordam | 9230115 | Netherlands | 2006 | 82,318 |
| MS Queen Victoria | 9320556 | Bermuda | 2007 | 90,049 |
| Carnival Vista | 9692569 | Panama | 2016 | 133,500 |
| Carnival Horizon | 9767091 | Panama | 2018 | 133,500 |
| Carnival Panorama | 9802384 | — | 2019 | 133,500 |
| Adora Magic City | 9871036 | — | — | 135,500 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MS Queen Elizabeth on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Pjotr Mahhonin, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| MS Serenade of the Seas |
| 2003 |
| 90,090 |