Discovery Princess is a Royal-class cruise ship cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. The -vessel was ordered in January 2017 with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri and her steel-cutting was performed on 14 February 2019 in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy.
Originally expected to begin operations in November 2021, the ship saw her construction and subsequent delivery delayed amid the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Fincantieri and Carnival Corporation. She was delivered to Princess on 28 January 2022 and became the company's sixth and final Royal-class cruise ship in the Princess fleet. Discovery Princess operated her week-long inaugural voyage on 27 March 2022 from her debut homeport of Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera and moved to Seattle during her maiden summer deployment to cruise the Inside Passage.
Design
Discovery Princess measures and has a length of 330.0 m, a draft of 8.49 m, and a beam of 38.38 m. She is powered by a diesel-electric genset system, with four total Wärtsilä engines, producing a total output of 62.4 MW. Main propulsion is via two propellers, each driven by a 18 MW electric motor.