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Largest in this registry
#5,058
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#147
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 19 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS Nieuw Amsterdam is a Signature-class cruise ship sailing for Holland America Line. The 81st ship to enter Holland America's fleet, she is the fourth ship to bear the name Nieuw Amsterdam in the line's history.
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 86,273 gross tons, Nieuw Amsterdam is the 5,058th 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 14 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 147th by tonnage — larger than 71% 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 22nd 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 3 are larger by tonnage.
Nieuw Amsterdam was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 336th 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 285.2 m overall, Nieuw Amsterdam is 87.1 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 8.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9378450 this registry holds 82 other vessels, whose median build year is 2008 and which range from 2005 to 2011. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.
Its IMO number, 9378450, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 7×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 5×2 = 170 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS Serenade of the Seas | 2003 | 90,090 |
| MS Queen Victoria | 2007 | 90,049 |
| Carnival Miracle | 2004 | 88,500 |
| Nieuw Amsterdam (this ship) | 2010 | 86,273 |
| Carnival Legend | 2002 | 85,942 |
| Carnival Spirit | 2001 | 85,920 |
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.

Carnival Magic
2011 · 130,000 GT · Panama

Carnival Dream
2009 · 130,000 GT · Panama

MS Azura
2010 · 115,055 GT · Bermuda

Costa Pacifica
2009 · 114,425 GT · Italy

Costa Favolosa
2011 · 113,216 GT · Italy
Costa Deliziosa
2010 · 92,720 GT · Italy

Carnival Luminosa
2009 · 92,720 GT · Italy
MS Queen Elizabeth
2010 · 90,900 GT · Bermuda
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MS Nieuw Amsterdam (2009) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Cybergoth, reused under CC BY-SA 1.0.
| Carnival Pride |
| 2001 |
| 85,920 |