Norwegian Epic

At 155,873 gross tons, Norwegian Epic is the 1,162nd 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 26 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 31st by tonnage — larger than 94% 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 Epic is the 62nd 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 19 are larger by tonnage.

Norwegian Epic was built in 2010, making it 16 years old. It is one of 3,028 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 20,204 GT; within it this ship is the 60th 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 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 329.4 m overall, Norwegian Epic is 131.3 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 40.6 m and a draft of 8.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9410569 this registry holds 77 other vessels, whose median build year is 2009 and which range from 2006 to 2013. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2010.

Its IMO number, 9410569, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 4×6 + 1×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 119 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.