Royal Romance

At 2,901 gross tons, Royal Romance is the 52,666th 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 2.1 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 311 yachts held here, it ranks 70th by tonnage — larger than 75% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,352 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 5,565 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Cayman Islands (101 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Lürssen, with 27 hulls on record.

Royal Romance was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 1,417th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 29 vessels to Feadship, with a median tonnage of 1,697 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 92.5 m overall, Royal Romance is 27.3 m longer than the 65.2 m median for yachts on record, with a beam of 14.3 m and a draft of 3.9 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1012268 this registry holds 66 other vessels, whose median build year is 2014 and which range from 1937 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 1012268, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 1×7 + 0×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 2×3 + 6×2 = 38 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.