Nieuw Amsterdam

At 36,982 gross tons, Nieuw Amsterdam is the 15,075th 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 6.2 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 271st by tonnage — larger than 46% 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.

Netherlands is the country of registry for 1,546 vessels in this directory, of which Nieuw Amsterdam is the 41st largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (839 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,810 GT. Browse every ship flagged Netherlands.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 22 cruise ships flying the Netherlands flag, of which 15 are larger by tonnage.

Nieuw Amsterdam was built in 1938, making it 88 years old. It is one of 79 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,097 GT; within it this ship is the 1st largest. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 19 vessels to Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij, with a median tonnage of 9,619 GT, delivered between 1921 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 231.2 m overall, Nieuw Amsterdam is 33.1 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 88.3 m and a draft of 9.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5251719 this registry holds 6 other vessels, whose median build year is 1938 and which range from 1925 to 1942. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1938.

Its IMO number, 5251719, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 5×5 + 1×4 + 7×3 + 1×2 = 99 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.