Royal Caribbean International was founded in 1968 by three Norwegian shipping companies — Anders Wilhelmsen, I. M. Skaugen and Gotaas Larsen — and put its first ship, Song of Norway, into service in 1970. From the start the line was built around purpose-designed ships for warm-water cruising rather than converted liners, and scale became its signature: successive generations have repeatedly held the title of the world's largest cruise ships. The fleet listed below spans that modern era in four broad steps. The Vision and Radiance classes, at roughly 74,000 to 90,000 GT, are the line's mid-sized ships. The Voyager and Freedom classes took the design past 137,000 GT, and the Oasis class, beginning with Oasis of the Seas in 2009, moved it beyond 225,000 GT. The Quantum class sits between those groups at about 169,000 GT, and the LNG-powered Icon class, led by Icon of the Seas, now tops the fleet at 248,663 GT.
The fleet — 30 ships in this directory
launched 1996 · 82,910 GT · Vision class · Active
launched 1996 · 73,817 GT · Vision class · Active
launched 1996 · 78,878 GT · Vision class · Active
launched 1997 · 78,717 GT · Vision class · Active
launched 1998 · 138,194 GT · Voyager class · Active
launched 1999 · 138,194 GT · Voyager class · Active
launched 2000 · 90,090 GT · Active
launched 2001 · 137,276 GT · Voyager class · Active
launched 2002 · 90,090 GT · Radiance class · Active
launched 2002 · 139,999 GT · Voyager class · Active
launched 2003 · 139,863 GT · Voyager class · Active
launched 2003 · 90,090 GT · Active
launched 2004 · 90,090 GT · Radiance class · Active
launched 2006 · 156,271 GT · Freedom class · Active
launched 2006 · 154,407 GT · Freedom class · Active
launched 2008 · 155,889 GT · Freedom class · Active
launched 2009 · 226,838 GT · Oasis class · Active
launched 2010 · 225,282 GT · Oasis class · Active
launched 2014 · 168,666 GT · Quantum class · Active
launched 2015 · 168,666 GT · Quantum class · Active
launched 2015 · 226,963 GT · Oasis class · Active
launched 2016 · 168,666 GT · Quantum class · Active
launched 2018 · 228,081 GT · Oasis class · Active
launched 2019 · 169,379 GT · Quantum-Ultra class · Active
launched 2020 · 169,379 GT · Quantum class · Active
launched 2022 · 235,600 GT · Oasis class · Active
launched 2023 · 236,473 GT · Oasis class · Active
launched 2024 · 248,663 GT · Icon class · Active
launched 2024 · 248,663 GT · Icon class · Active
launched 2025 · 248,663 GT · Icon class · Active
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCCL, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Cruise_Lines