Photo: Royal Caribbean
More than 100 years ago, the Titanic was the largest cruise ship on the water. But today, giant vessels sometimes more than four times Titanic’s size regularly travel across the seas with enough passengers and crew to form a small city.
With a gross tonnage of 228,081, Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas is now officially the world’s largest cruise ship. But in order to fully comprehend the ship’s massive size, here’s an infographic to showing how it stacks up against other historic vessels:
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