The 40 longest ships ever built
Ranked by length overall, from the 488 m Prelude down to Berge Stahl, with the honest asterisk explained.
Open the board →Ship records
Five ranked boards and one tool, compiled from operator and builder data and sourced on every page, with each board ranked in its own honest unit.
The boards
Six ways to rank a ship
The biggest cruise ships in the world
Ranked by gross tonnage, the ships you can actually book, led by Royal Caribbean’s Icon class. The full answer to the most-asked question at sea.
Open the board →The biggest ships by gross tonnage
Ranked by gross tonnage, internal volume, the honest measure for passenger ships and the record Pioneering Spirit owns outright.
Open the board →The biggest container ships
Ranked by nominal capacity in twenty-foot equivalent units, a board that runs from 24,346 down to the 58 boxes that started everything.
Open the board →The biggest tankers & bulk giants
Ranked by deadweight, the tonnes a ship can lift. The top of this board is the half-million-tonne club, and most of it died young.
Open the board →The highest-capacity passenger ships
Ranked by passengers at double occupancy, where the mega-resorts stack up, and where the true liners deliberately do not.
Open the board →The Canal-Fit Checker
Pick any ship for an instant verdict against Panamax, Neopanamax, Suezmax, Malaccamax, Seawaymax and Chinamax, with the limiting dimension highlighted.
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