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Cruise ship
Operated by Norwegian Cruise Line
Photo: Dickelbers · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Largest in this registry
#1,562
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#40
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#7
of 21 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Norwegian Breakaway is a cruise ship of Norwegian Cruise Line. It, along with Norwegian Getaway, are the first two ships in "Project Breakaway" ordered by Norwegian Cruise Line. They were named through a public contest - a contestant submitted the name Norwegian Breakaway, which was announced on 14 September 2011.
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 145,655 gross tons, Norwegian Breakaway is the 1,562nd 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 24 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 40th by tonnage — larger than 92% 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.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Norwegian Breakaway is the 77th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 133 cruise ships flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 24 are larger by tonnage.
Norwegian Breakaway was built in 2013, making it 13 years old. It is one of 2,213 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 22,566 GT; within it this ship is the 58th 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 160 vessels to Meyer Werft, with a median tonnage of 16,324 GT, delivered between 1902 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 325.6 m overall, Norwegian Breakaway is 127.5 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 39.7 m and a draft of 8.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9606912 this registry holds 69 other vessels, whose median build year is 2012 and which range from 2010 to 2015. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2013.
Its IMO number, 9606912, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 9×3 + 1×2 = 152 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS Manara | 2017 | 150,695 |
| Genting Dream | 2016 | 150,695 |
| Queen Mary 2 | 2004 | 148,528 |
| Norwegian Breakaway (this ship) | 2013 | 145,655 |
| Enchanted Princess | 2021 | 145,281 |
| Discovery Princess | 2022 | 145,000 |
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.

Quantum of the Seas
2014 · 158,350 GT · The Bahamas
Norwegian Getaway
2014 · 145,655 GT · The Bahamas

Disney Fantasy
2012 · 129,750 GT · The Bahamas

Celebrity Reflection
2012 · 125,366 GT · Malta

AIDAstella
2013 · 71,304 GT · Italy

AIDAmar
2012 · 71,100 GT · Italy

RV Sonne
2014 · 8,000 GT · Germany
Viking Lif
2014 · Switzerland
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Norwegian Breakaway on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Dickelbers, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.
| 2019 |
| 145,000 |