Pacific Encounter

At 108,977 gross tons, Pacific Encounter is the 2,757th 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 18 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 106th by tonnage — larger than 79% 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.

Bermuda is the country of registry for 177 vessels in this directory, of which Pacific Encounter is the 42nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (80 ships), and the median vessel measures 77,277 GT. Browse every ship flagged Bermuda.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 26 cruise ships flying the Bermuda flag, of which 12 are larger by tonnage.

Pacific Encounter was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 45th 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 289.5 m overall, Pacific Encounter is 91.4 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 36.0 m and a draft of 8.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9192363 this registry holds 61 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1998 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.

Its IMO number, 9192363, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 1×6 + 9×5 + 2×4 + 3×3 + 6×2 = 143 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.