The Legend of the Seas is a 365-metre-long Icon-class ship, and designed to carry 5,600 passengers.
The Meyer Turku shipyard took its massive Legend of the Seas cruise ship on its first test run on Sunday.
The ship, which will be among the largest cruise ships in the world, set off from the shipyard in Turku, then slowly cruised past Ruissalo, among other islands in the archipelago.
Sea trials of large cruise ships like this usually take just over a week, according to Meyer Turku’s communications chief, Anna Hakala.
The Legend of the Seas is a 365-metre-long Icon-class ship. It is designed to carry 5,600 passengers, making it one of the world’s largest cruise ships.
The vessel will be the third Icon-class ship that the shipyard has built for the Royal Caribbean cruise company.
The second Icon-class ship built in Turku, Star of the Seas, headed to its home port in Florida last summer. The first such ship, the Icon of the Seas, was delivered in 2023.
The shipyard is currently working on construction of the yet-to-be-named Icon 4 and Icon 5.
Meyer Turku has options to build sixth and seventh Icon-class ships, as the shipyard has signed an agreement with with Royal Caribbean to build ships in Turku until 2036.
The Legend of the Seas is scheduled to begin Mediterranean cruises in July. The vessel will spend next winter in the Caribbean and then return to Europe for the 2027 summer season.
Edited at 11:50 on 20 April 2026 to note that the Legend of the Seas will be one of the biggest cruise ships in the world, not the largest.
