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Largest in this registry
#6,063
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#169
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Norwegian Sky is a Sun-class cruise ship owned and operated by Norwegian Cruise Line. She was originally ordered by Costa Cruises as Costa Olympia from the Bremer Vulkan shipyard in Germany, but she was completed in 1999 by the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany for the Norwegian Cruise Line under the name Norwegian Sky. Between 2004 and 2008, she sailed as Pride of Aloha for NCL America.
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 77,104 gross tons, Norwegian Sky is the 6,063rd 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 169th by tonnage — larger than 67% 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 Sky is the 298th 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 53 are larger by tonnage.
Norwegian Sky was built in 1999, making it 27 years old. It is one of 1,252 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,594 GT; within it this ship is the 78th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 129 vessels to Bremer Vulkan, with a median tonnage of 18,037 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2000. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 258.6 m overall, Norwegian Sky is 60.5 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 8.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9128532 this registry holds 62 other vessels, whose median build year is 1996 and which range from 1995 to 1999. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1999.
Its IMO number, 9128532, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 2×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 3×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Dawn Princess | 1997 | 77,441 |
| Pacific World | 1995 | 77,441 |
| Marella Voyager | 1997 | 77,302 |
| Norwegian Sky (this ship) | 1999 | 77,104 |
| MV Queen of the Oceans | 2000 | 77,000 |
| Marella Explorer | 1996 | 76,998 |
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 Norwegian Sky on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Gordon Leggett, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| 2000 |
| 76,152 |