Icon of the Seas
Royal Caribbean · In service
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The numbers
Side by side
| Icon | Titanic | Difference | Bigger | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Royal Caribbean | White Star Line | ||
| Length overall | 364.75 m | 269.06 m | 95.69 m | Icon +36% |
| Beam | 48.65 m | 28.19 m | 20.46 m | Icon +73% |
| Draft | 9.30 m | 10.50 m | 1.20 m | Titanic +13% |
| Passengers | 5,610 | 2,435 | 3,175 | Icon +130% |
| Speed | 22 kn | 23 kn | 1 kn | Titanic +5% |
The verdict
Which is actually bigger?
Icon of the Seas is about five times the Titanic's tonnage and 96 m longer — the century of shipbuilding between them in one picture. Titanic keeps one number: at ≈23 knots flat out she was the faster ship.
The Icon of the Seas is the longer of the two, at 364.75 m against 269.06 m — a difference of 95.69 m. She is also the wider ship, by 20.46 m of beam, so she is the bigger vessel on both hull dimensions.
Icon of the Seas rewrote the top of the cruise record books in January 2024 and held the world's-largest title until her sister ships matched and then narrowly exceeded her. Five times the gross tonnage of the Titanic. Titanic was the largest ship in the world for ten months and has been the world's reference object for size ever since. Every modern giant gets compared to her; on this site, she is a bar on almost every chart. The silhouettes above are drawn at true relative scale from the sourced figures on each ship's page — same metres, same pixels, no artistic licence.
The two are measured in different units — one by volume or people, the other by cargo — which is why this site never ranks them on one board, and why the true-scale drawing above is the only honest single comparison.
RMS Titanic
White Star Line · Sunk 1912
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