Largest in this registry
#2,347
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#85
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#7
of 17 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About Diamond Princess
Diamond Princess is a British-registered cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises. She began operation in March 2004 and primarily cruises in Asia during the northern hemisphere summer and Australia during the southern hemisphere summer. She is a subclassed Grand-class ship, which is also known as a Gem-class ship. Diamond Princess and her sister ship, Sapphire Princess, are the widest subclass of Grand-class ships, as they have a 37.5-metre (123 ft 0 in) beam, while all other Grand-class ships have a beam of 36 metres (118 ft 1 in). Diamond Princess and Sapphire Princess were both built in Nagasaki, Japan, by Mitsubishi Industries.
There have been two notable outbreaks of infectious disease on the ship – an outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by norovirus in 2016 and an outbreak of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. In the latter incident, the ship was quarantined for nearly a month with her passengers on board, and her passengers and crew were subject to further quarantine after disembarking. At least 712 out of the 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and by mid-April 2020 nine had died.
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
- 9228198
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 235103359
- Call sign
- 2HFZ7
- Flag state
- United Kingdom
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Cruise ship
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Yard number
- 2181
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2004
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Carnival Corporation
- Operator on record
- Princess Cruises
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 115,906
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 290.0 m
- Beam
- 37.5 m
- Draft
- 8.1 m
- Service speed
- 22.1 kn
- Passenger capacity
- 2,670
In context
How Diamond Princess 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.
At 115,906 gross tons, Diamond Princess is the 2,347th 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 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 85th by tonnage — larger than 83% 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 Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory, of which Diamond Princess is the 33rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 cruise ships flying the United Kingdom flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Diamond Princess was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 35th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 104 vessels to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 21,438 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 290.0 m overall, Diamond Princess is 91.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 37.5 m and a draft of 8.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9228198 this registry holds 77 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 2000 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.
Its IMO number, 9228198, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 2×5 + 8×4 + 1×3 + 9×2 = 138 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Celebrity Equinox | 2009 | 121,878 |
| Celebrity Eclipse | 2010 | 121,878 |
| Ventura | 2008 | 116,017 |
| Diamond Princess (this ship) | 2004 | 115,906 |
| Sapphire Princess | 2004 | 115,875 |
| MS Azura | 2010 | 115,055 |
| Costa Pacifica | 2009 | 114,425 |
Record
Notable events
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
- —COVID-19 pandemic on Diamond Princess
- —quarantine
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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.
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Princess Cruises
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Diamond Princess (ship) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Barrylb, reused under Public domain.