Prima-class cruise ship

The Prima class is a class of cruise ships built for Norwegian Cruise Line by Fincantieri, which makes them the first NCL ships built by that yard. The class was developed under the project name Leonardo; NCL ordered four ships in February 2017 with an option for two more and confirmed the fifth and sixth in July 2018. Norwegian Prima entered service in 2022 and Norwegian Viva followed in 2023. The third ship, Norwegian Aqua, opened a Prima plus subclass about ten percent larger in gross tonnage, and the later Prima plus plus ships are planned to be about twenty percent larger than Norwegian Prima, making them the largest in the NCL fleet. Changes to the design added to the shipbuilding cost over the original estimate of about 850 million dollars a ship.