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Cruise ship
Operated by Princess Cruises
Photo: Dashers at English Wikipedia · Public domain · file
Largest in this registry
#26,277
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#330
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#17
of 17 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
MS Pacific was a cruise ship owned and operated by the Brazil-based Viagens CVC from 2002 to 2013. She was built for Flagship Cruises in 1971 by the company Nordseewerke in Emden, West Germany, and named Sea Venture. Between 1975 and 2002 she was owned by Princess Cruises named Pacific Princess.
Pacific Princess was one of the ships used in the TV series The Love Boat, airing from 1977 to 1986. Much of the 1980 book More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin took place on board, and was later made into a miniseries, aired in 1998.
In 2008, Pacific was chartered by the newly established Quail Cruises to operate cruises out of Valencia, Spain, but was retired from service when renovation work proved more expensive than had been anticipated, and was sold in 2012 to a ship breaking company. After that sale fell through, she remained laid up in Genoa for an extended period before being towed to Aliağa where she arrived on 6 August 2013 for demolition. Before she was dismantled, on 10 August 2013, there was a fatal accident in which there was a flood in the compartment below the engines. While electrical pumps were operating, two men were killed and nine injured by toxic exhaust gases.
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 20,636 gross tons, Pacific is the 26,277th 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 3.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 330th by tonnage — larger than 35% 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 Pacific is the 1,013th 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 92 are larger by tonnage.
Pacific was built in 1971, making it 55 years old. It is one of 1,927 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,462 GT; within it this ship is the 174th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 111 vessels to Nordseewerke, with a median tonnage of 21,699 GT, delivered between 1916 and 2010. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 168.7 m overall, Pacific is 29.4 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 24.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7018563 this registry holds 54 other vessels, whose median build year is 1970 and which range from 1969 to 1971. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1971.
Its IMO number, 7018563, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 113 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS Shota Rustaveli | 1968 | 21,275 |
| MS Taras Shevchenko | 1966 | 21,100 |
| Astor | 1987 | 20,704 |
| Pacific (this ship) | 1971 | 20,636 |
| MV China Star | 1992 | 20,295 |
| SS Independence | 1951 | 20,221 |
| Discovery |
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 MS Pacific on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Dashers at English Wikipedia, reused under Public domain.
| 1972 |
| 20,216 |