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Largest in this registry
#6,007
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#166
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 1 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Pacific World (previously Sun Princess) is a Sun-class cruise ship built in 1995 and operated by Peace Boat. At the time of her construction, she was one of the largest cruise ships in the world. She was the lead ship of her class that included sister ships Dream of Tianjin Orient International Cruise Line, Star Voyager of StarCruises, and Queen of the Oceans of Seajets'.
Sun Princess was the ship featured from 1998 to 1999 on the short-lived television show, Love Boat: The Next Wave starring Robert Urich. The show was a revival of the original The Love Boat television series which ran from 1977 to 1986. She made the news in October 2007 as the largest ship to ever cross beneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge while entering the harbor for the first time, with a vertical clearance of approximately 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) to spare at low tide.
In July 2018, Sun Princess underwent a two-week dry dock. She received new livery design, new stateroom category, shops, and other onboard amenities.
In September 2020, Sun Princess was sold to Peace Boat. The Sun Princess was renamed Pacific World.
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 77,441 gross tons, Pacific World is the 6,007th 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 166th 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.
Bermuda is the country of registry for 177 vessels in this directory, of which Pacific World is the 87th 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 20 are larger by tonnage.
Pacific World was built in 1995, making it 31 years old. It is one of 1,092 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,255 GT; within it this ship is the 56th 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 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 261.0 m overall, Pacific World is 62.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.3 m and a draft of 8.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9000259 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1963 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1995.
Its IMO number, 9000259, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 2×3 + 5×2 = 79 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS Vision of the Seas | 1998 | 78,717 |
| Norwegian Sun | 2001 | 78,309 |
| MS Charming | 1998 | 77,499 |
| Pacific World (this ship) | 1995 | 77,441 |
| Marella Voyager | 1997 | 77,302 |
| Norwegian Sky | 1999 | 77,104 |
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.
Carnival Sunshine
1996 · 102,853 GT · The Bahamas

Aegean Majesty
1996 · 57,092 GT · Netherlands

Celestyal Journey
1994 · 55,877 GT · United Kingdom

MSC Rafaela
1996 · 42,307 GT
Petrobras 36
1996 · 33,000 GT · Brazil

Copernicus
1995 · 14,398 GT · Cyprus

Levante
1994 · 14,398 GT · Bulgaria

Paraguana I
1996 · 3,971 GT · Venezuela
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Pacific World on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Llenoa, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 2000 |
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