Silver Cloud

At 16,800 gross tons, Silver Cloud is the 29,295th 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 2.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 347th by tonnage — larger than 31% 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.

The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Silver Cloud is the 1,088th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 133 cruise ships flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 97 are larger by tonnage.

Silver Cloud was built in 1994, making it 32 years old. It is one of 1,047 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,680 GT; within it this ship is the 335th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 7 vessels to T. Mariotti, with a median tonnage of 20,361 GT, delivered between 1994 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 155.8 m overall, Silver Cloud is 42.4 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 21.4 m and a draft of 7.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8903923 this registry holds 57 other vessels, whose median build year is 1990 and which range from 1988 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1994.

Its IMO number, 8903923, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 3×4 + 9×3 + 2×2 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.