At 15,833 gross tons, Princess Daphne is the 30,305th 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 2.6 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 353rd by tonnage — larger than 30% 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.
Princess Daphne was built in 1955, making it 71 years old. It is one of 201 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,864 GT; within it this ship is the 6th largest. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 124 vessels to Swan Hunter, with a median tonnage of 6,944 GT, delivered between 1903 and 2006. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 162.4 m overall, Princess Daphne is 35.8 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 21.3 m and a draft of 7.8 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5282627 this registry holds 16 other vessels, whose median build year is 1949 and which range from 1929 to 1958. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1955.
Its IMO number, 5282627, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 2×4 + 6×3 + 2×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
