Royal Caribbean Thursday celebrated the completion of the largest cruise ship ever built, Harmony of the Seas.Crew size will probably be roughly 2,500. An oil tanker of that displacement would be a "very large crude carrier", which is probably an apt description of a Carnival cruise.
Top executives at the company including chairman and CEO Richard Fain joined the ship's incoming crew at the STX shipyard in St. Nazaire, France for a traditional flag changing ceremony atop the 227,000-ton vessel. ... It's total capacity will be well over 6,000 people, not including crew.
It'll be a lot of fun if that monster ever goes cold, dark and quiet at sea, something Carnival ships have had some experience at doing. And then there's norovirus, which can turn a cruise into a trip that's only a little more fun than cruising on a plague-ship. Or, the damn thing can run aground and sink.
But I've ridden that horse before.
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That's GRT, not displacement, right?
Those giant cruise ships bring to mind the first one that Faith boards in Ringo's "Under a Graveyard Sky", Black Tide Rising series. Hmm, might have been in the second book.
That figure is GT, displacement is estimated at about 100,000 for,the Oasis-class.
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