Legend of the Seas
Royal Caribbean · Cruise · In service · built by Meyer Turku
Delivered in June 2026 and a few millimetres longer than her two sisters, Legend of the Seas currently holds the title every cruise ship page on this site has to reckon with: the largest cruise ship in the world.
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How big is it, really?
The Legend of the Seas's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
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The numbers
| Length overall | ≈365 m |
|---|---|
| Beam (moulded) | 48.65 m |
| Gross tonnage | 248,663 GT |
| Passengers | 5,610 (double) / ≈7,600 (max) |
| Crew | 2,350 |
| Decks | 20 |
| Propulsion | LNG dual-fuel |
| Delivered | 10 June 2026 |
| Maiden voyage | July 2026, Western Mediterranean |
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Last verified: 2026-07-15 · Spot an error? business@luck.fyi
What makes it different
Legend of the Seas is what happens when a record is defended rather than set. Her sisters Icon and Star of the Seas had already redefined the top of the cruise industry at 248,663 gross tons; Legend arrived in June 2026 measuring a foot or so longer, and with that sliver of steel the largest-cruise-ship title changed hands inside the same family for the second year running.
What genuinely separates her is geography. Icon-class ships were built for the Caribbean run out of Florida; Legend is the first to homeport in Europe, sailing the Western Mediterranean out of Barcelona and Civitavecchia through her debut summer before crossing to Fort Lauderdale for the winter. She is by a wide margin the largest cruise ship ever to operate a European season.
Under the records she is a known quantity: eight neighborhoods, seven pools, the six-slide Category 6 waterpark, around 2,350 crew, and LNG dual-fuel propulsion — the fourth LNG ship in the Royal Caribbean fleet. Construction had one scare, an engine-room fire at Meyer Turku in December 2025, but the yard held the schedule and handed her over on 10 June 2026.
The Legend line
Icon class
The extra foot
Who operates the Legend
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
RCIRoyal CaribbeanRoyal Caribbean's 30th ship and current flagship-by-size. First Icon-class ship homeported in Europe.1✓→