At 115,875 gross tons, Sapphire Princess is the 2,348th 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 86th by tonnage — larger than 83% 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 Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Sapphire Princess is the 34th largest by tonnage. 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, of which 4 are larger by tonnage.
Sapphire Princess was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 36th 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 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 290.0 m overall, Sapphire Princess is 91.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 37.5 m and a draft of 8.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9228186 this registry holds 78 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 2000 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.
Its IMO number, 9228186, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 8×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 136 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
