SS France

At 76,049 gross tons, SS France is the 6,142nd 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 13 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 173rd by tonnage — larger than 66% 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.

Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which SS France is the 108th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 25 cruise ships flying the Norway flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

The registry attributes 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 315.5 m overall, SS France is 117.4 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 33.8 m and a draft of 10.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5119143 this registry holds 8 other vessels, whose median build year is 1961 and which range from 1914 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 5119143, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 1×3 + 4×2 = 93 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.