Pretoria Castle

At 28,705 gross tons, Pretoria Castle is the 20,813th 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 4.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 295th by tonnage — larger than 42% 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 Pretoria Castle is the 257th 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 12 are larger by tonnage.

Pretoria Castle was built in 1948, making it 78 years old. It is one of 123 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,126 GT; within it this ship is the 1st largest. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 124 vessels to Harland and Wolff, with a median tonnage of 12,002 GT, delivered between 1904 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 227.8 m overall, Pretoria Castle is 29.7 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 25.6 m and a draft of 9.8 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5284352 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 1953 and which range from 1936 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1948.

Its IMO number, 5284352, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 4×4 + 3×3 + 5×2 = 122 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.