Bellissima

By any standards this ship is huge. In fact, the biggest cruise ship in the world, and christened in Southampton last evening by Italian film legend Sophie Loren begins her maiden cruise from the port today.
MSC Bellissima arrived in port on Friday directly from the shipyard where she was bult at Chantiers de l'Alantique at Nantes, France.
Size? Weighing in at 171,598 gt and able to carry 4,500 passengers.