Cruise ship connectivity, vessel by vessel

Because maritime equipment is fitted vessel by vessel, not fleet by fleet. A line can advertise Starlink across its fleet while a newly delivered ship, or one recently transferred from a sister brand, is still waiting for the installation. "My line is on the list" and "my ship is on the list" are different statements, and only the second one gets you online.

Check the provider’s own vessel list before you buy, not the marketing page. GigSky, Saily and eSIM.dog each publish a list of covered ships, and they do not match each other — a vessel on one may be missing from the others. The list below shows which of the ships we track appear on which provider’s published list.

No. Starlink is the ship’s backhaul for its own Wi-Fi. A maritime eSIM connects to the ship’s cellular network, which is a separate system with its own capacity. A Starlink-equipped ship has much better Wi-Fi than it used to; it does not make the cellular side faster.

Not necessarily — it means we have not been able to name it from a provider’s published list. This page covers the vessels we can verify, not every ship afloat. Check your provider’s own list for the specific hull before assuming either way.