Disney Cruise Line announced Friday that three of its future ships in its expansion to a fleet of 13 in the next seven years will be smaller than all but its two original vessels.
DCL just welcomed its newest ship, Disney Treasure, sailing out of Port Canaveral as the sixth in the fleet with a sister ship in the Wish class, Disney Destiny, headed to Port Everglades at the end of 2025. It also has the Disney Adventure, which is its own class of ship, headed to Singapore before the end of the year, which will grow the fleet to eight.
Friday’s announcement revealed details for four more ships that have been ordered by DCL to be delivered between 2027-2031. The first would be a fourth sister ship in the Wish class while the last three will be a new class, which has yet to be named.
The new class of ships will be delivered in 2029, 2030 and 2031, and have a passenger capacity of around 3,000, which is about 1,000 fewer than the Wish class and older Dream class vessels, according to a press release.
Those ships are projected to come in around 100,000 gross tons compared to the 144,000 gross tons of the Wish class and 129,600 gross tons of 2011’s Disney Dream and 2012’s Disney Fantasy.
It will still be about 20% larger than the first two DCL ships — 1998’s Disney Magic and 1999’s Disney Wonder, which come in around 84,000 gross tons and 2,700-passenger capacities.
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