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Cruise ship
Operated by P&O Cruises
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Largest in this registry
#1,605
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#49
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#3
of 7 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MV Britannia is a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet. She was built by Fincantieri at its shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy.
Britannia is the flagship of the fleet, taking the honour from Oriana. She officially entered service on 14 March 2015, and was named by Queen Elizabeth II. Her first captain was Paul Brown.
Britannia features a 94-metre (308 ft) Union Flag on her bow, the largest of its kind in the world.
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 143,730 gross tons, MV Britannia is the 1,605th 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 24 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 49th by tonnage — larger than 90% 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.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which MV Britannia is the 17th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 cruise ships flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.
MV Britannia was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 70th 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 330.0 m overall, MV Britannia is 131.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 44.0 m and a draft of 8.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9614036 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2017. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.
Its IMO number, 9614036, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 1×5 + 4×4 + 0×3 + 3×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Majestic Princess | 2017 | 144,216 |
| Disney Destiny | 2025 | 144,000 |
| Disney Wish | 2022 | 144,000 |
| MV Britannia (this ship) | 2015 | 143,730 |
| Norwegian Viva | 2023 | 143,535 |
| Norwegian Prima | 2022 | 143,535 |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Princess | 9584712 | Bermuda | 2013 | 142,714 |
| Regal Princess | 9584724 | Bermuda | 2014 | 142,714 |
| Majestic Princess | 9614141 | United Kingdom | 2017 | 144,216 |
| Discovery Princess | 9837468 | Bermuda | 2022 | 145,000 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Britannia (2014 ship) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy This image photographed by Brian Burnell with permission was uploaded to Commons by George Hutchinson. To see his entire portfolio, click here. Permission to upload photographs by Brian Burnell is archived in the OTRS system as shown below each image. This image is protected by copyright! If you would like to use it outside Wikipedia, please read THIS first. The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed. Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is permitted. Attribution, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 2014 |
| 142,714 |