At 78,717 gross tons, MS Vision of the Seas is the 5,953rd 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 163rd by tonnage — larger than 68% 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 Vision of the Seas is the 295th 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 50 are larger by tonnage.
MS Vision of the Seas 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 51st 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 4 vessels to Saint-Nazaire, with a median tonnage of 76,327 GT, delivered between 1991 and 2016. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 279.0 m overall, MS Vision of the Seas is 80.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 7.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9116876 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1994 to 2000. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1998.
Its IMO number, 9116876, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 6×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
