Does size really matter? The cruise industry thinks so. For more than a century, cruise lines have competed to claim the title of world's largest cruise ship. When it set sail in 1912, the ill ...

The MSC Meraviglia is both the largest cruise ship and the passenger ship with the highest capacity to hit Newport Harbor. The Queen Mary 2, which visited in 2024, is the second largest passenger ...

Considered the largest passenger ship ever built when it was constructed in 2003, the 1,131.99-foot-long, 148,528-ton RMS Queen Mary 2 was the second-largest passenger ship to sail into Newport ...

At 101,000 gross tons, Carnival Destiny has replaced P&O's Sun Princess, which debuted in 1995, as the world's largest passenger ship — an honor which did not go unnoticed by New Yorkers as the ...

Tugboats guide the SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America, underneath the Walt Whitman bridge near Gloucester City, N.J., on Feb. 19, 2025. ‘Big U’, which once ...

Still holding the record for being the largest passenger ship built in the U.S. at nearly 1,000 feet long, the vessel was purchased by Okaloosa County in October and will be sunk off Destin-Fort ...

The SS United States, once the largest passenger ship built entirely in the US, has been towed from Philadelphia after nearly 30 years. Launched in 1951, the ship was a symbol of luxury and ...