At 143,535 gross tons, Norwegian Prima is the 1,610th 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 50th 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.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Norwegian Prima is the 85th 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 29 are larger by tonnage.
Norwegian Prima was built in 2022, making it 4 years old. It is one of 158 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,795 GT; within it this ship is the 16th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 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 299.0 m overall, Norwegian Prima is 100.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 44.0 m and a draft of 8.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9823986 this registry holds 48 other vessels, whose median build year is 2018 and which range from 1970 to 2025. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2022.
Its IMO number, 9823986, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 176 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
