Disney Cruise Line’s new ship won’t be sailing from Port Canaveral until July, but it dipped its toes into the water for the first time.
The 144,000 gross-ton, 1,254-stateroom vessel has been under construction at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenberg, Germany since 2020, assembled in pieces in the massive covered dry dock, but saw the light of day in a slow hour-long float out that was accentuated with Disney’s signature fireworks once it made it all the way out.
The hull structure was completed in August, but work continued such as the installation of the two massive Azipod engines, but crews have been ready to flood the dry docks awaiting good weather conditions since last week.
