MSC Meraviglia

At 171,589 gross tons, MSC Meraviglia is the 329th 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 29 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 19th by tonnage — larger than 96% 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.

Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which MSC Meraviglia is the 20th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 57 cruise ships flying the Malta flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.

MSC Meraviglia was built in 2017, making it 9 years old. It is one of 1,468 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 26,213 GT; within it this ship is the 22nd 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 7 vessels to STX France, with a median tonnage of 97,741 GT, delivered between 1989 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 315.0 m overall, MSC Meraviglia is 116.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 43.0 m and a draft of 8.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9760512 this registry holds 52 other vessels, whose median build year is 2016 and which range from 2014 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2017.

Its IMO number, 9760512, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 6×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 152 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.