At 80,439 gross tons, Pride of America is the 5,804th 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 161st by tonnage — larger than 68% 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.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which Pride of America is the 13th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 cruise ships flying the United States flag, of which none is larger than Pride of America.
Pride of America was built in 2005, making it 21 years old. It is one of 1,690 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,046 GT; within it this ship is the 153rd 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 47 vessels to Ingalls Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 8,741 GT, delivered between 1943 and 2005. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 280.6 m overall, Pride of America is 82.4 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 32.2 m and a draft of 8.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9209221 this registry holds 44 other vessels, whose median build year is 2000 and which range from 1999 to 2005. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2005.
Its IMO number, 9209221, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 9×4 + 2×3 + 2×2 = 121 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
