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Largest in this registry
#6
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#2
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#2
of 38 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Legend of the Seas is an Icon-class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. She was built at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland. At 248,663 gross tonnage (GT), Legend of the Seas shares the title of the largest cruise ship in the world with her sister ships. After her summer 2026 season in the Western Mediterranean, Legend of the Seas will offer her primary sailing of the Western Caribbean operating out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 248,663 gross tons, Legend of the Seas is the 6th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 41 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 2nd by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.
The Bahamas is the country of registry for 1,614 vessels in this directory, of which Legend of the Seas is the 2nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (940 ships), and the median vessel measures 30,020 GT. Browse every ship flagged The Bahamas.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 133 cruise ships flying the The Bahamas flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
Legend of the Seas was built in 2026, making it 0 years old. It is one of 26 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,578 GT; within it this ship is the 1st largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 55 vessels to Meyer Turku, with a median tonnage of 10,834 GT, delivered between 1951 and 2027. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 364.8 m overall, Legend of the Seas is 166.7 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 65.0 m and a draft of 9.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9888560 this registry holds 12 other vessels, whose median build year is 2020 and which range from 2019 to 2026. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2026.
Its IMO number, 9888560, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 8×6 + 8×5 + 8×4 + 5×3 + 6×2 = 210 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Hero of the Seas | 2027 | 250,800 |
| Legend of the Seas (this ship) | 2026 | 248,663 |
| Utopia of the Seas | 2024 | 236,473 |
| Wonder of the Seas | 2022 | 235,600 |
| Symphony of the Seas | 2018 | 228,081 |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icon of the Seas | 9829930 | The Bahamas | 2024 | 248,663 |
| Star of the Seas | 9829942 | The Bahamas | 2025 | 248,663 |
| Hero of the Seas | 1083023 | The Bahamas | 2027 | 250,800 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Legend of the Seas on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy BlueChase1333, reused under CC0.