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Carnival Jubilee

Carnival Cruise Line · Cruise · In service · built by Meyer Werft

Carnival Jubilee brought the Excel class to Galveston: the biggest ships Carnival has ever operated, with the BOLT rollercoaster running around the funnel.

Length overall344.5 m

Beam42 m

Gross tonnage183,521 GT

Passengers5,374

Speed21 kn

Delivered2023

Our numbers

Derived metrics

Computed by ships.fyi from the core specification — see how we calculate these.

Passengers per metre#3 of 19

15.6 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall

Length-to-beam ratio#7 of 45

8.20 length overall ÷ beam

Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Carnival Jubilee's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Carnival Jubilee344.5 m

Eiffel Tower (height)330 m

Titanic269.06 m

Football pitch105 m

Boeing 747-876.3 m

Blue whale25 m

You (probably)1.75 m

The 747-8 bar is the longest airliner ever built — our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.

One Carnival Jubilee = 1.28 Titanics · 3.3 football pitches · 14 blue whales · 4.5 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall	≈344.5 m
Beam	≈42 m
Gross tonnage	183,521 GT
Passengers	≈5,374 (double) / ≈6,631 (max)
Crew	≈1,735
Propulsion	LNG dual-fuel
Delivered	December 2023
Maiden voyage	December 2023, Galveston

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The story

What makes it different

Carnival Jubilee is the third of the Excel class, the largest ships in Carnival Cruise Line's history and the first American-market ships powered by LNG. She shares her platform with AIDA Nova and Costa Smeralda — Carnival Corporation ordered the same Meyer-designed LNG hull for three of its brands and let each dress it differently.

Carnival's dressing includes BOLT, an electric rollercoaster looping the funnel deck at up to 40 mph — still the only rollercoaster genre at sea — and two new ocean-themed zones, Currents and The Shores, unique to Jubilee within the class.

Stationed year-round in Galveston, she is the largest cruise ship ever based in Texas, a deliberate bet on the fastest-growing drive-to cruise market in the United States.

The class

The Carnival Jubilee line

Excel class

Third of Carnival's Excel class after Mardi Gras (2021) and Carnival Celebration (2022), with Festivale following. Based on the same Meyer platform as AIDA Nova and Costa Smeralda.

Operators

Who operates the Carnival Jubilee

All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.

CCLCarnival Cruise LineYear-round Western Caribbean itineraries from Galveston, Texas.1✓→

Quick answers

Carnival Jubilee, asked and answered

How long is the Carnival Jubilee?

344.5 m (1,130 ft) length overall — the #34 longest of the 45 ships on ships.fyi, and 3.3 football pitches end to end.

How big is the Carnival Jubilee compared to the Titanic?

The Carnival Jubilee is 1.28× the Titanic's length — 344.5 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 183,521 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 4.0 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.

Who operates the Carnival Jubilee?

Carnival Cruise Line. Current status: in service.

Does the Carnival Jubilee fit through the Panama Canal?

Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 344.5 m by 42 m on a 8.7 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.

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