Is there a cruise ship bigger than Titanic? if so what is it!!?

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Bill in Kansas

Nearly every modern cruise ship, with the exception of those going on 2-3 days from Miami to the Bahamas, are larger that the Titanic was.

When she sailed she was giant weighting in at 46,000 tons, but by todays standards, she would considered very small.

My wife and I will be sailing on Carnival Conquest, not the largest of vessels, but a massive ship non-the-less, and she weights in at 110,000 tons.

That should put things in perspective.

missourim43

It was small by todays standards. It weighed 46,000 tons and carried 2,500 people.

Today large cruise ships are over 160,000 tons and carry over 3,600 passengers.

wiscman77

Most modern cruise ships are bigger. The older QE2 was only a bit larger. About 962 feet long and 60,000 tons (GRT), it was larger than the Titanic. The Titanic was about 880 feet and 46,000 GRT (a measure of volume), and 52,000 tons displacement. Length does not enter into ship size today; it is generally tonnage (GRT).

There are at least two dozen cruise ships that exceed the Titanic, mostly by tonnage. Because modern ships don't need the expansive foredeck for cargo loading, newer ships are bigger, yet shorter. Of the older ships, the Norway, QE2, were larger in all dimensions, and almost any cruise ship built in the last 20 years are far larger than the Titanic.

angel

Click on to the link for pics.....
http://www.geekarmy.com/cool/Freedom-of-the-Seas.html

Description....
The world's largest cruise ship at the moment is Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas.

Freedom of the Seas is a floating skyscraper at 237 feet tall and 1,112 feet long with 15 passenger decks. It is a seagoing village that can carry more than 4,000 passengers.

Built at a cost of $800 million at Aker Yards ASA in Norway, the Freedom of the Seas is a vessel of superlatives. It is a behemoth of 160,000 gross registered tons and is longer than the Eiffel Tower is high. By comparison, the Titanic was a puny 46,329 gross registered tonnes.

Located within its 15 passenger decks are 10 restaurants and 16 bars and sports facilities that include swimming pools, a pool for surfing and an ice rink. Among the other amenities are a day spa and solarium, a cinema, casino and numerous dance clubs and nightspots.

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Freedom of the seas (Royal Caribbean)
QM2 Queen mary 2(Cunard)

Lex

There are tons of ships bigger than the Titanic. The Titanic was 883 feet long and the average cruise ship nowadays is over 900 feet. At the time, Titanic was huge, but by today's standards it's kind of small.

brother_lu

nowadays most cruise lines top one or two are bigger than the titanic, but less recently
it's sister Brittanic was/would have been (3 years after titanic) . was going to be a cruise ship, but then the UK went to war and it was used by the army as a hospital ship instead. it lasted less than a year before being sunk...

Suzanne

I think so. I think the QE2 is bigger.

zerosum0

Isn't the Queen Mary larger ? Royal Caribbean orders largest-ever cruise ship http://www.queenmary.com/index.php?page=titanicvsqm

tatie30

There is a cruise ship called "The World" which is a huge cruise liner that people live on all year round if they want to. It's definitely biger than "Titanic" and I last saw it in Greenwich, England, cruising the River Thames on it's way somewhere far more exotic no doubt!

stingrayaz

i think its called the QE2

heartscared

http://www.geekarmy.com/cool/Freedom-of-the-Seas.html

Nooka

S.S. Minnow - the whole crew and passengers were never seen again

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