Largest steamships by capacity

As of 2026-10-12, SS Great Eastern tops the list with 4,000 seats.

1. #1 SS Great Eastern — 4,000 seats

   British sailing steamship

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2. #2 SS Eastland — 2,752 seats

   passenger ship that rolled over in Chicago in 1915

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3. #3 SS Minnesota — 2,586 seats

   American built ocean-liner

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4. #4 Hendrick Hudson — 2,000 seats

   1845 Hudson River steamship

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5. #5 SS Conte Grande — 1,780 seats

   ship

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6. #6 SS City of Paris — 1,740 seats

   Ocean Liner

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7. #7 SS City of New York — 1,740 seats

   British built passenger liner

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8. #8 SS Drottningholm — 1,712 seats

   steam turbine powered transatlantic ocean liner

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9. #9 SS Admiral Nakhimov — 1,500 seats

   1925 ocean liner converted to hospital ship

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10. #10 SS Cap Arcona — 1,300 seats

    ocean liner

    SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a requisitioned auxiliary ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship in the later months of World War II (1939–1945). A flagship of the Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft, she made her maiden voyage on 29 October 1927, carrying passengers and cargo between Germany and the east coast of South America, and for a brief period of time she was the largest and fastest... Read more on Wikipedia.

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