Largest in this registry
#7,380
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#214
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
About Viking Glory
MS Viking Glory is a cruiseferry owned and operated by Viking Line. The ship was launched in January 2021 and entered service in March 2022. Viking Glory was built at the Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry shipyard in China. The order was worth 225 million euro. The ship operates the Turku-Åland-Stockholm route, where she replaced the Amorella.
Viking Glory was built on the foundation of Viking Grace, but her energy efficiency was sought to improve. The ship is slightly longer and wider than Viking Grace, making her nine percent larger. In terms of gross tonnage (GT) Viking Glory is the largest cruiseferry on the northern Baltic Sea.
Viking Glory leaves from Turku in the morning and arrives at Mariehamn together with its sister ship Viking Grace in the afternoon on the same day. The ship stops at Mariehamn for 15 minutes. In the evening the ship arrives in Stockholm and stays there for an hour, after which it continues back towards Turku via Långnäs. Because of this, a full cruise takes 23 hours. Viking Glory usually leaves Turku in the morning, but it has also made evening departures for several days or even a week on end.
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
- 9827877
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- 230041000
- Call sign
- OJTC
- Flag state
- Finland
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Cruise ship
- Builder
- Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry
- Yard number
- XSI488A
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 2022
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- Viking Line
- Operator on record
- Viking Line
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- 63,000
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 218.0 m
- Beam
- 35.0 m
- Draft
- 6.5 m
- Service speed
- —
- Passenger capacity
- 2,800
In context
How Viking Glory 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 63,000 gross tons, Viking Glory is the 7,380th 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 214th 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.
Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Viking Glory is the 5th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 cruise ships flying the Finland flag, of which none is larger than Viking Glory.
Viking Glory was built in 2022, making it 4 years old. It is one of 158 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,795 GT; within it this ship is the 21st 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 57 vessels to Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry, with a median tonnage of 33,044 GT, delivered between 1989 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 218.0 m overall, Viking Glory is 19.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 35.0 m and a draft of 6.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9827877 this registry holds 34 other vessels, whose median build year is 2018 and which range from 2017 to 2022. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2022.
Its IMO number, 9827877, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 2×5 + 7×4 + 8×3 + 7×2 = 187 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Explora II | 2024 | 63,900 |
| MV Pacific Pearl | 1989 | 63,786 |
| Explora I | 2023 | 63,621 |
| Viking Glory (this ship) | 2022 | 63,000 |
| MS Bolette | 2000 | 62,735 |
| Borealis | 1997 | 61,849 |
| MS Zaandam | 2000 | 61,396 |
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Viking Line
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Viking Glory on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Sinikka Halme, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.