At 55,877 gross tons, Vasco de Gama is the 8,856th 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 9.3 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 224th by tonnage — larger than 55% 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.
Portugal is the country of registry for 389 vessels in this directory, of which Vasco de Gama is the 36th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (223 ships), and the median vessel measures 7,519 GT. Browse every ship flagged Portugal.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 9 cruise ships flying the Portugal flag, of which none is larger than Vasco de Gama.
Vasco de Gama was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 82nd 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 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 219.2 m overall, Vasco de Gama is 21.1 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 30.8 m and a draft of 7.7 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8919245 this registry holds 60 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1990 to 1995. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.
Its IMO number, 8919245, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 2×3 + 4×2 = 165 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
