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Article: Royal Caribbean creates colossus of seas.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2003
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Byline: Arline Bleecker
Royal Caribbean International in mid-September sealed the deal to build an Ultra Voyager, a vessel weighing in at about 160,000 gross registered tons. It will be _ drum roll, please _ the largest cruise ship in the world.
To date, this is cruisedom's biggest behemoth _ larger even than Cunard Line's forthcoming 150,000-ton QM2. The megaship is slated to arrive in May 2006.
The Ultra Voyager will be roughly 15 percent bigger than the line's Voyager-class ships _ currently the biggest passenger ships in service. It will soar 18 stories high, measure 126 feet wide at the waterline and stretch 1,112 feet in length. At 100 ...