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Largest in this registry
#5,423
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#158
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#7
of 19 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS Oosterdam ( OH-ster-dam) is a Vista class cruise ship of the Holland America Line. Launched in 2002 as the line's second Vista, Oosterdam is sister to MS Noordam, Westerdam and Zuiderdam. The ship's name is a portmanteau of the Dutch word oost, meaning 'east,' and the suffix -dam, a common Dutch placename suffix used in the names of all Holland America Line ships.
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 82,820 gross tons, Oosterdam is the 5,423rd 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 158th by tonnage — larger than 69% 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 Oosterdam is the 25th 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 6 are larger by tonnage.
Oosterdam was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 100th 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 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 285.0 m overall, Oosterdam is 86.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 7.9 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9221281 this registry holds 67 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1999 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9221281, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 1×4 + 2×3 + 8×2 = 111 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Disney Magic | 1998 | 83,969 |
| Enchantment of the Seas | 1997 | 82,910 |
| MS Westerdam | 2004 | 82,862 |
| Oosterdam (this ship) | 2003 | 82,820 |
| MS Noordam | 2006 | 82,318 |
| Pride of America | 2005 | 80,439 |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS Zuiderdam | 9221279 | Netherlands | 2002 | 82,820 |
| MS Westerdam | 9226891 | Netherlands | 2004 | 82,862 |
| Arcadia | 9226906 | Bermuda | 2005 | 84,342 |
| MS Noordam | 9230115 | Netherlands | 2006 | 82,318 |
| MS Queen Victoria | 9320556 | Bermuda | 2007 | 90,049 |
| MS Queen Elizabeth | 9477438 | Bermuda | 2010 | 90,900 |
| Carnival Vista | 9692569 | Panama | 2016 | 133,500 |
| Carnival Horizon | 9767091 | Panama | 2018 | 133,500 |
| Carnival Panorama | 9802384 | — | 2019 | 133,500 |
| Adora Magic City | 9871036 | — | — | 135,500 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MS Oosterdam on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Farid mernissi, reused under CC BY 4.0.
| 1997 |
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