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Operator on record: Viking Ocean Cruises
Photo: Ding Kezhong · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#10,376
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest unclassified
#5,635
of 49,696 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Fleet rank
—
No operator attributed to this ship
In brief
Viking Orion is a cruise ship operated by Viking Ocean Cruises. The ship was built by Fincantieri at its yard in Ancona, Italy. It was delivered to Viking Cruises on June 7, 2018. The ship was christened by NASA astronaut Anna Fisher in a ceremony at Livorno, Italy. The ship was named after Orion the Hunter, a constellation and has the unique feature of a planetarium.
Vessel particulars
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
Construction
Measurements
In context
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.
At 47,861 gross tons, Viking Orion is the 10,376th 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 8.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 5,635th by tonnage — larger than 89% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Viking Orion is the 212th 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 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 151 are larger by tonnage.
Viking Orion was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 289th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 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 228.3 m overall, Viking Orion is 113.3 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record, with a beam of 28.8 m and a draft of 6.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9796250 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2017 and which range from 2015 to 2021. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.
Its IMO number, 9796250, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 9×5 + 6×4 + 2×3 + 5×2 = 190 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among vessels this registry holds no type classification for
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Bernhard Schulte | 2010 | 47,877 |
| Hammonia America | 2014 | 47,873 |
| Hammonia Sapphire | 2014 | 47,873 |
| Viking Orion (this ship) | 2018 | 47,861 |
| Northern Power | 2010 | 47,855 |
| Northern Priority | 2009 | 47,855 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.

MSC Seaside
2017 · 154,000 GT · Malta

MSC Seaview
2018 · 154,000 GT · Malta

Sky Princess
2019 · 145,000 GT · Bermuda

Majestic Princess
2017 · 144,216 GT · United Kingdom

Carnival Venezia
2019 · 135,500 GT · The Bahamas

Carnival Panorama
2019 · 133,500 GT

Carnival Horizon
2018 · 133,500 GT · Panama

MS Nieuw Statendam
2018 · 99,500 GT · Netherlands
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Viking Orion on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Ding Kezhong, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| Northern Prelude |
| 2009 |
| 47,855 |