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Star of the Seas

Royal Caribbean · Cruise · In service · built by Meyer Turku

Star of the Seas is Icon's twin in every number that matters, delivered in 2025 to bring the Icon-class formula to Port Canaveral.

Length overall364.75 m
Beam48.65 m
Gross tonnage248,663 GT
Passengers5,610
Speed22 kn
Delivered2025
Our numbers

Derived metrics

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

Passengers per metre#7 of 19
15.4 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#17 of 45
7.50 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Star of the Seas's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Star of the Seas364.75 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 Star of the Seas = 1.36 Titanics · 3.5 football pitches · 15 blue whales · 4.8 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall364.75 m
Beam (moulded)48.65 m
Gross tonnage248,663 GT
Passengers5,610 (double) / ≈7,600 (max)
Crew2,350
PropulsionLNG dual-fuel
Delivered2025
Maiden voyageAugust 2025, Port Canaveral

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The story

What makes it different

Star of the Seas is the proof that Icon of the Seas was a class, not a one-off. Delivered by Meyer Turku in 2025 and sailing from Port Canaveral, she matches her lead sister at 248,663 gross tons and 5,610 passengers at double occupancy — which made her, on delivery, the joint largest cruise ship in the world rather than a new record holder.

That is a deliberate strategy. Royal Caribbean learned with the Oasis class that a family of near-identical giants is worth more than a single champion: the same terminals, the same crew training, the same spare parts, and a headline ship in more than one home port at once. Star brought the Icon experience — the AquaDome, the Category 6 waterpark, the eight-neighborhood layout — to Florida's second great cruise port.

Her one unqualified superlative lasted until June 2026, when Legend of the Seas measured out fractionally longer. On this site's boards the three sisters sit together at the top of the gross tonnage table, separated by rounding errors.

The class

The Star line

Icon class
Second of the class. Structurally a sister to Icon of the Seas, with entertainment and dining variations rather than dimensional ones.
Operators

Who operates the Star

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

RCIRoyal CaribbeanSails seven-night Caribbean itineraries from Port Canaveral, Florida.1
Quick answers

Star, asked and answered

How long is the Star of the Seas?
364.75 m (1,197 ft) length overall — the #24 longest of the 45 ships on ships.fyi, and 3.5 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Star of the Seas compared to the Titanic?
The Star of the Seas is 1.36× the Titanic's length — 364.75 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 248,663 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 5.4 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Star of the Seas?
Royal Caribbean. Current status: in service.
Does the Star of the Seas fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 364.75 m by 48.65 m on a 9.3 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.