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Cruise ship

SS Leonardo da Vinci

IMO 5206518ItalyBuilt 1960

Operated by Italian Line

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No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About SS Leonardo da Vinci

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SS Leonardo da Vinci was an ocean liner built in 1960 by Ansaldo Shipyards, Italy for the Italian Line as a replacement for their SS Andrea Doria that had been lost in 1956. She was initially used in transatlantic service alongside SS Cristoforo Colombo, and primarily for cruising after the delivery of the new SS Michelangelo and SS Raffaello in 1965. In 1976 the Leonardo da Vinci became the last Italian Line passenger liner to be used in service across the North Atlantic. Between 1977 and 1978 she was used as a cruise ship by Italia Crociere but was laid up from 1978 onwards until 1982 when she was scrapped.
Named after the famous Italian inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci, the ship featured numerous technological innovations, including provisions for conversion to run on nuclear power.

Quoted from SS Leonardo da Vinci (1958) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 5206518

In context

How SS Leonardo da Vinci compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 33 cruise ships flying the Italy flag.

SS Leonardo da Vinci was built in 1960, making it 66 years old. It is one of 315 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 530 GT. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 13 vessels to Ansaldo, with a median tonnage of 4,817 GT, delivered between 1938 and 1965. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 233.9 m overall, SS Leonardo da Vinci is 35.8 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 28.1 m and a draft of 9.6 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5206518 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1954 and which range from 1906 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1960.

Its IMO number, 5206518, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 88 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.