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Star Princess

Princess Cruises · Cruise · In service · built by Fincantieri

Star Princess is the 2025 flagship of Princess Cruises: 177,882 GT of LNG-powered Sphere class crowned by a glass Dome that turns from pool retreat to evening arena, delivered by Fincantieri at Monfalcone.

Length overall345 m
Beam47 m
Gross tonnage177,882 GT
Passengers4,300
Speed22 kn
Delivered2025
Our numbers

Derived metrics

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

Passengers per metre#13 of 19
12.5 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#19 of 45
7.34 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

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

Star Princess345 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 Princess = 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 overall345 m
Beam47 m
Gross tonnage177,882 GT
Passengers4,300 (double) / ≈5,850 (max)
Crew≈1,547
PropulsionLNG dual-fuel
DeliveredSeptember 26, 2025
Maiden voyageOctober 2025, Barcelona

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The story

What makes it different

Princess spent a decade watching rivals build ever-bigger hulls and then answered with the Sphere class: two 345-metre, 177,882-ton sisters from Fincantieri's Monfalcone yard that are the largest cruise ships ever constructed in Italy. Star Princess is the second of them, delivered in September 2025, eighteen months after Sun Princess opened the class — and at 345 metres she stands eye to eye with Queen Mary 2 on the length board while carrying nearly four times the modern liner's berths per metre of hull.

The class signature is the Dome, a geodesic glass crown over the bow inspired by Santorini terraces — a pool retreat by day that converts to an aerial-show arena by night — backed by an Arena theater with moving seating and a three-deck Piazza. She is also Princess's second LNG-powered ship, part of parent Carnival Corporation's long dual-fuel programme.

Star Princess is the third ship to wear the name, and the first with a tequila christening: Camila and Matthew McConaughey broke a bottle of their own label across her bow at Port Everglades in November 2025. By April 2026 she had already threaded the Neopanamax locks for her first Panama transit — at 47 metres of beam, she clears the 51.25-metre gauge with under two metres of margin per side.

The class

The Star Princess line

Sphere class
Second of the class after Sun Princess (February 2024) — Princess Cruises' largest ships and its first powered by LNG. Together the pair are the largest cruise ships ever built in Italy.
Operators

Who operates the Star Princess

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

PCLPrincess CruisesMediterranean inaugural season, Caribbean winters from Fort Lauderdale, Alaska from 2026 — she made her first Panama Canal transit in April 2026.1
Quick answers

Star Princess, asked and answered

How long is the Star Princess?
345 m (1,132 ft) length overall — the #31 longest of the 45 ships on ships.fyi, and 3.3 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Star Princess compared to the Titanic?
The Star Princess is 1.28× the Titanic's length — 345 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 177,882 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 3.8 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Star Princess?
Princess Cruises. Current status: in service.
Does the Star Princess fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 345 m by 47 m on a 8.5 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.