Regal Empress

At 21,909 gross tons, Regal Empress is the 25,466th 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 3.7 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 322nd by tonnage — larger than 36% 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.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the country of registry for 545 vessels in this directory, of which Regal Empress is the 147th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (324 ships), and the median vessel measures 10,964 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 cruise ships flying the Saint Kitts and Nevis flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.

Regal Empress was built in 1953, making it 73 years old. It is one of 179 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,502 GT; within it this ship is the 1st 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 13 vessels to Alexander Stephen and Sons, with a median tonnage of 4,354 GT, delivered between 1911 and 1967. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 186.1 m overall, Regal Empress is 12.0 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 24.1 m and a draft of 8.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5262835 this registry holds 8 other vessels, whose median build year is 1952 and which range from 1879 to 1960. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1953.

Its IMO number, 5262835, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 6×5 + 2×4 + 8×3 + 3×2 = 115 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.