NCL's 1,035-foot, 70,000 ton Norway follows Commodore's Caribe I out to the open ocean.

A passenger ship's Gross Register Tonnage (GRT) is a corollary to the cubic volume inside a ship, and not a measure of weight or displacement. When launched as the France, the liner was just over 70,000 tons; roughly 13,000 tons shy of the big three of the 1930's (Queens Mary and Elizabeth and the French Line's Normandie). NCL added accommodations to her upper decks in the 90's, increasing her size to 75,000 tons. While until 2003 she was the longest passenger ship ever built, she was never the largest.