Largest in this registry
#7,238
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#211
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 3 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
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
- 9869887
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 256798000
- Call sign
- 9HA5976
- Flag state
- Malta
- Port of registry
- Valletta
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Cruise ship
In context
How Explora II 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 63,900 gross tons, Explora II is the 7,238th 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 211th 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.
Malta is the country of registry for 2,640 vessels in this directory, of which Explora II is the 363rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,614 ships), and the median vessel measures 23,204 GT. Browse every ship flagged Malta.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 57 cruise ships flying the Malta flag, of which 29 are larger by tonnage.
Explora II was built in 2024, making it 2 years old. It is one of 116 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,985 GT; within it this ship is the 31st 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 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 249.0 m overall, Explora II is 50.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 33.0 m and a draft of 7.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9869887 this registry holds 29 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.
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.
- 2023ship launching
- 2024maiden voyage
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Fincantieri
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 Explora Journeys
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryNo English Wikipedia article is linked to this vessel, so no summary is shown.
PhotographNo freely licensed photograph of this vessel is held, so none is shown.
