Also known as a cruise liner, not an ocean liner.
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Cruise ships are passenger ships that are used for holiday cruises and are a lot like hotels with numerous facilities including pools, restaurants, live entertainment and so on.
- Cruise ships cost over 500 million dollars to build.
- Although similar, ocean liners and cruise ships have a few differences. These include that ocean liners aren’t as comfortable and aren’t as suitable for cruising.
- Cruise ships generally take passengers from a starting point and do a round trip visiting various ports and finish back at the starting point, unlike ocean liners which normally take people directly from one destination to another.
- Currently, the largest cruise ships are the Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas both of which can carry more than 6000 passengers.
- The largest cruise ship, Allure of the Seas, is 361.8 m (1,187 feet) in length, 65 meters (208 feet) in width, and approximately 20 storeys high.
- The first cruise was believed to be performed by the Augusta Victoria on the 22nd January 1891, for two months and 241 passengers.
- The first cruise liner built especially as a cruise ship was the Prinzessin Victoria Luise, from Germany which was finished in 1900.
- Many cruise ships have guns to protect the ship and passengers from modern day pirates.
- Between 2005 and the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster (not inclusive) only 16 fatalities have occurred amongst 100 million people who have cruised during that time.
Bibliography:
Cruise Ship 5 January 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship>
