Viking Glory

At 63,000 gross tons, Viking Glory is the 7,380th 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 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 214th by tonnage — larger than 58% 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.

Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Viking Glory is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 cruise ships flying the Finland flag, of which none is larger than Viking Glory.

Viking Glory was built in 2022, making it 4 years old. It is one of 158 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,795 GT; within it this ship is the 21st largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 57 vessels to Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry, with a median tonnage of 33,044 GT, delivered between 1989 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 218.0 m overall, Viking Glory is 19.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 35.0 m and a draft of 6.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9827877 this registry holds 34 other vessels, whose median build year is 2018 and which range from 2017 to 2022. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2022.

Its IMO number, 9827877, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 7×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 187 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.