MS Thomson Spirit

At 33,930 gross tons, MS Thomson Spirit is the 16,859th 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 5.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 276th by tonnage — larger than 45% 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.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which MS Thomson Spirit is the 75th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 3 cruise ships flying the Palau flag, of which none is larger than MS Thomson Spirit.

MS Thomson Spirit was built in 1983, making it 43 years old. It is one of 1,578 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,112 GT; within it this ship is the 114th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 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 214.7 m overall, MS Thomson Spirit is 16.5 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 27.3 m and a draft of 7.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8024014 this registry holds 55 other vessels, whose median build year is 1981 and which range from 1980 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1983.

Its IMO number, 8024014, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 0×6 + 2×5 + 4×4 + 0×3 + 1×2 = 84 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.