MV Aurora

United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 19 cruise ships flying the United States flag.

MV Aurora was built in 1955, making it 71 years old. It is one of 201 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,864 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 88 vessels to Blohm+Voss, with a median tonnage of 6,876 GT, delivered between 1905 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 89.5 m overall, MV Aurora is 108.6 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 13.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5088227 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1949 and which range from 1873 to 1959. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1955.

Its IMO number, 5088227, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 2×3 + 2×2 = 117 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.