SS Independence

At 20,221 gross tons, SS Independence is the 26,566th 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 3.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 332nd by tonnage — larger than 34% 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 States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which SS Independence is the 253rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 cruise ships flying the United States flag, of which 2 are larger by tonnage.

SS Independence was built in 1951, making it 75 years old. It is one of 151 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 722 GT; within it this ship is the 1st largest. 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 20 vessels to Bethlehem Steel, with a median tonnage of 16,898 GT, delivered between 1927 and 1990. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 208.0 m overall, SS Independence is 9.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 27.2 m and a draft of 9.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5160180 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1930 to 1968. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1951.

Its IMO number, 5160180, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 6×5 + 0×4 + 1×3 + 8×2 = 90 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.