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Princess Cruises

Headquarters: Santa Clarita
Founded: 1965
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

1,800,181

Summed over 17 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Princess Cruises is

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Princess Cruises is an American cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation. The company headquarters are in Santa Clarita, California and is incorporated in Bermuda. As of 2025, it is the sixth largest cruise line by net revenue. It was previously a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises. The line has 17 ships cruising global itineraries that are marketed to both American and international passengers.
In the 1980s, Princess rose in prominence after American television series The Love Boat was set primarily on the Pacific Princess in its weekly episodes, and the brand has since continued to invoke its connection to the series. The Sun Princess was also prominently featured in the 1975 Columbo episode "Troubled Waters".

Origin

Who founded it

Princess Cruises was founded in 1965 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Stanley McDonald

1920–2014

Canadian businessman (1920-2014)

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: tourism
Legal form: subsidiary company
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Santa Clarita
Formed in: —
Founded: 1965
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 34.3917, -118.5426

Ships on record here: 17
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 20.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1971
Newest vessel on record: 2022
Largest vessel by tonnage: 145,281
Average tonnage: 105,893
Market share: —
Parent company: Carnival Corporation
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 17 vessels this registry attributes to Princess Cruises. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Fincantieri11

Chantiers de l'Atlantique4

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries1

Nordseewerke1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 4 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	1	144,216	14
2018	0	—	14
2019	1	145,000	15
2020	0	—	15
2021	1	145,281	16
2022	1	145,000	17
2023	0	—	17
2024	0	—	17
2025	0	—	17
2026	0	—	17

Vessel records

Ships on record

17 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Enchanted Princess	9807126	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2021	145,281	11,658	329.9 m	Fincantieri
Discovery Princess	9837468	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2022	145,000	—	—	Fincantieri
Sky Princess	9802396	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2019	145,000	—	330.0 m	Fincantieri
Majestic Princess	9614141	Cruise ship	United Kingdom	2017	144,216	11,277	330.0 m	Fincantieri
Regal Princess	9584724	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2014	142,714	10,900	330.0 m	Fincantieri
Royal Princess	9584712	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2013	142,714	12,512	330.0 m	Fincantieri
Diamond Princess	9228198	Cruise ship	United Kingdom	2004	115,906	—	290.0 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Emerald Princess	9333151	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2007	113,561	8,400	289.0 m	Fincantieri
Ruby Princess	9378462	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2008	113,561	—	288.6 m	Fincantieri
Pacific Encounter	9192363	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2002	108,977	10,852	289.5 m	Fincantieri
Grand Princess	9104005	Cruise ship	Bermuda	1998	108,806	8,418	289.0 m	Fincantieri
Pacific Adventure	9192351	Cruise ship	United Kingdom	2001	108,806	8,418	289.0 m	Fincantieri
Island Princess	9230402	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2003	92,822	—	294.0 m	Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Coral Princess	9229659	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2002	91,627	—	294.0 m	Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Azamara Onward	9187887	Cruise ship	Bermuda	1999	30,277	2,700	181.0 m	Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Azamara Pursuit	9210220	Cruise ship	Bermuda	2001	30,277	2,700	180.4 m	Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Pacific	7018563	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	1971	20,636	—	168.7 m	Nordseewerke

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Princess Cruises compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 17 vessels attributed to it here, Princess Cruises is the 46th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Princess Cruises ranks 6th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1965, Princess Cruises is 61 years old. This directory holds 96 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.