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Cruise ship
Operated by Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
Photo: Pjotr Mahhonin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#20,896
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#298
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Boudicca (also known as Royal Viking Sky, Sunward, Birka Queen, Golden Princess, SuperStar Capricorn, Hyundai Keumgang, and Grand Latino) was a Royal Viking Star-class cruise ship that last served as accommodation vessel at Pendik, near Tuzla Shipyard. She was built in 1973 by Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland as Royal Viking Sky for Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskap, Trondheim, which placed the ship in Royal Viking Line service. In May 2021 the ship was beached in Aliağa, Turkey, for scrapping.
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 28,551 gross tons, MV Boudicca is the 20,896th 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 298th by tonnage — larger than 41% 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 MV Boudicca is the 815th 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 86 are larger by tonnage.
MV Boudicca was built in 1973, making it 53 years old. It is one of 2,097 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,435 GT; within it this ship is the 201st largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 118 vessels to Wärtsilä, with a median tonnage of 14,058 GT, delivered between 1938 and 1998. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 207.0 m overall, MV Boudicca is 8.8 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 25.2 m and a draft of 7.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7218395 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1972 and which range from 1970 to 1974. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1973.
Its IMO number, 7218395, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 2×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 3×3 + 9×2 = 125 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Pretoria Castle | 1948 | 28,705 |
| Black Watch | 1972 | 28,613 |
| RMS Empress of Canada | 1961 | 28,574 |
| MV Boudicca (this ship) | 1973 | 28,551 |
| Seven Seas Navigator | 1999 | 28,550 |
| MS Albatros | 1973 | 28,518 |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MV Boudicca on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Pjotr Mahhonin, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| MV Silver Whisper |
| 2001 |
| 28,258 |