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PCL Princess Cruises

United States · Carnival Corporation · HQ: Fort Lauderdale / Los Angeles

The Love Boat line, destination cruising at scale, crowned by the Italian-built Sphere class.

Ships here13
Biggest shipSun Princess
Group / allianceCarnival Corporation
Founded1965
MarkPCL
Side by side

The fleet at true scale

Every giant Princess Cruises operates on this site, drawn to the same scale, longest hull on the left. Tap any silhouette.

The whole fleet

Every Princess Cruises ship, in brief

Princess Cruises sails 17 ships as of mid-2026. The Sphere class crowns the fleet, Sun Princess (2024) and flagship Star Princess (2025), with a third on order, above six Royal-class ships (Royal, Regal, Majestic, Sky, Enchanted, Discovery Princess), the Grand and Crown classes that defined 2000s Princess, and the smaller Coral-class pair for the Panama Canal.

We profile the flagships in full below, the rest of the fleet joins ships.fyi class by class.

The fleet

What Princess Cruises operates

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1 in fleet

Star Princess

Fincantieri · In service

Mediterranean inaugural season, Caribbean winters from Fort Lauderdale, Alaska from 2026, she made her first Panama Canal transit in April 2026.

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1 in fleet

Royal Princess

Fincantieri · In service

Caribbean and Mediterranean itineraries; christened by the Duchess of Cambridge in Southampton, June 2013.

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Good to know

Princess Cruises, in a few facts

  • The 1970s TV series The Love Boat was filmed aboard Princess ships and made the brand a household name before most people had ever cruised.
  • Its Sphere-class flagships Sun Princess and Star Princess are the largest cruise ships ever built in Italy.
  • A pioneer of large-scale Alaska cruising, pairing ships with its own network of wilderness lodges.