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The Crown Princess visiting Lerwick is seen here passing Ham on Bressay and dwarfing the cottages there. The Crown Princess can cater for up to 3,080 passengers with 1,200 crew. Her engines produce a mere 19MW (equivalent to at least 6 large offshore wind turbines) which can propel her at up to 21.5 knots. She weighs in at 113,000 tons gross weight, is 951' (290m) long, 159' (48m) wide {118' (36m) at the waterline}, 195' (59m) high and draws 28' (8.5m). This last statistic being the reason that she couldn't actually get too close in to Lerwick harbour, so her stripy orange tenders were running a busy ferry service between ship and port.
The ship was launched in June 2006, and just one month later suffered a "serious listing incident" where she ended up listing up to 24° to starboard. Considerable (but easily repairable) damage was caused to her upper decks, with water rushing out of the on-board pools down the stairwells, and with furniture and furnishings crashing into people. Nearly 300 passengers received injuries, with 94 being transferred to hospital once the ship had returned to port. Fortunately despite the severe angle of list, no-one went overboard however, and none of the injuries was life-threatening, although fourteen passengers and crew were considered "seriously injured". An enquiry decided that this situation had been caused by human error on the bridge.
Since this unfortunate start to her career, she has had trouble-free service for nearly a decade.
Princess Cruises website page for her here Link
See also HU4739 : Crown Princess outside Lerwick
Note: These cottages are quite a popular subject for Geograph - they can be seen in images by two other regular contributors - see HU4839 : Ham, Bressay (2008), HU4839 : Ham, Bressay (2009) & HU4839 : Ham (2013)