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Cruise ship
Operated by Norwegian Cruise Line
Photo: Pjotr Mahhonin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#4,374
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#134
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#16
of 21 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Norwegian Star is a Dawn-class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). Ordered by and intended for Star Cruises, it was originally named SuperStar Libra before being transferred to NCL. Norwegian Star is a Panamax cruise ship; its 294-meter-length (965 ft) and 32.2-meter-beam (105.6 ft) nears the limit for ships transiting the Panama Canal through the original set of locks. Norwegian Dawn is in the same class.
Norwegian Star was built by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. Construction began on Norwegian Star in 2000 and was completed in mid-2001, with the ship put into service later that year. Originally circumnavigating the Hawaiian Islands since its introduction, Norwegian Star was moved to the Pacific Coast of North America in 2004.
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 91,740 gross tons, Norwegian Star is the 4,374th 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 15 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 134th by tonnage — larger than 74% 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 Star is the 205th 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 43 are larger by tonnage.
Norwegian Star was built in 2001, making it 25 years old. It is one of 1,268 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 14,062 GT; within it this ship is the 32nd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 160 vessels to Meyer Werft, with a median tonnage of 16,324 GT, delivered between 1902 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 294.1 m overall, Norwegian Star is 96.0 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 8.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9195157 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1999 and which range from 1998 to 2006. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2001.
Its IMO number, 9195157, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 5×4 + 1×3 + 5×2 = 147 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MSC Orchestra | 2007 | 92,409 |
| MSC Musica | 2006 | 92,409 |
| Norwegian Dawn | 2001 | 92,250 |
| Norwegian Star (this ship) | 2001 | 91,740 |
| Coral Princess | 2002 | 91,627 |
| Celebrity Millennium | 2000 | 90,963 |
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.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Norwegian Star on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Pjotr Mahhonin, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 2001 |
| 90,940 |