At 3,434 gross tons, Plancius is the 50,088th 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 1.7 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 450th by tonnage — larger than 11% 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 Plancius is the 576th 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 19 are larger by tonnage.
Plancius was built in 1976, making it 50 years old. It is one of 1,812 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 4,484 GT; within it this ship is the 879th 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 18 vessels to De Merwede, with a median tonnage of 4,501 GT, delivered between 1949 and 2004. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 90.0 m overall, Plancius is 108.1 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 14.4 m and a draft of 4.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7432044 this registry holds 56 other vessels, whose median build year is 1976 and which range from 1973 to 1984. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1976.
Its IMO number, 7432044, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 4×6 + 3×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 4×2 = 104 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
