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Cruise ship

RMS Carinthia

IMO 5063629United KingdomBuilt 1956

Operated by Cunard Line

Photo: Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand · CC BY 2.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About RMS Carinthia

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RMS Carinthia was an ocean liner built in 1956 as one of the four Saxonia-class ships. She sailed for Cunard Line from her completion until 1968 when she was sold to Sitmar Line, rebuilt into a full-time cruise ship and renamed SS Fairsea. She sailed with Sitmar until 1988, when Sitmar was sold to P&O. She was renamed SS Fair Princess and sailed for Princess Cruises and P&O Cruises until 2000. She was then sold to China Sea Cruises and renamed SS China Sea Discovery. In 2005 or 2006 she was scrapped at Alang, India.

Quoted from RMS Carinthia (1955) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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

IMO number: 5063629
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI

In context

How RMS Carinthia compares

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.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 cruise ships flying the United Kingdom flag.

RMS Carinthia was built in 1956, making it 70 years old. It is one of 205 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 952 GT. 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 27 vessels to John Brown & Company, with a median tonnage of 21,370 GT, delivered between 1936 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 185.4 m overall, RMS Carinthia is 12.7 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 24.4 m and a draft of 8.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5063629 this registry holds 11 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1918 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1956.

Its IMO number, 5063629, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 6×5 + 3×4 + 6×3 + 2×2 = 99 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
Havblomst	5063643	1962
Sea Star II	5063588	1960
Giglio Espresso II	5063681	1959
Caribia	5063514	1953

Same yard, same years

Built alongside at John Brown & Company

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.