Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, passenger ships primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans, they typically embark on round-trip voyages to various attractive ports of call. There passengers may go on organized tours known as "shore excursions".[1] The largest may carry thousands of passengers in a single trip, and are some of the largest ships in the world by gross tonnage(GT), bigger than many large cargo ships. Cruise ships started to exceed ocean liners in size and capacity in the mid-1990s;[2] before then, few were more than 50,000GT.[3] In the decades since the size of the largest vessels has more than doubled.[4]
There have been nine or more new cruise ships added every year since 2001, most of which are 100,000GT or greater.[5] In the two decades between 1988 and 2009, the largest cruise ships grew a third longer (268 to 360 m (879 to 1,181 ft)), almost doubled their widths (32.2 to 60.5 m (106 to 198 ft)), doubled the total passengers (2,744 to 5,400), and tripled in volume (73,000 GT to 225,000 GT). The largest have grown considerably since, particularly in passenger capacity; As of December 2023[update], the largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, has a gross tonnage of 248,336, is 365 m (1,198 ft) long and holds up to 7,600 passengers.[6][7]
Cruise ships are organized much like floating hotels, with a complete hospitality staff in addition to the usual ship's crew.[8] They cater to nautical tourists, with recent vessels being described as "balcony-laden floating condominiums".[9] The "megaships" went from a single deck with verandas to all decks with verandas,[10] and feature ameneties such as theaters, fine-dining and chain restaurants, spas, fitness centers, casinos, sports facilities, and even amusement park attractions.[1][11]
Cruise ships require electricity both for propulsion and onboard power.[12] As with cargo ships, cruise vessels are designed with all the heavy machinery at the bottom of the hull and lightweight materials where feasible at the top, making them inherently stable even as passenger ships are getting ever taller,[13] and most supplement design with stabilizer fins to further reduce rolling in heavy weather.[14] While some cruise ships use traditional fixed propellers and rudders to steer, most larger ships use azimuth thrusters that can swivel left and right to steer, vastly improving vessel maneuverability.[15]
Cruise ships are operated by cruise lines, which offer cruises to the public. In the 1990s, many cruise lines were bought by much larger holding companies and continue to operate as brands or subsidiaries of the holding company. For instance, Carnival Corporation & plc owns both the mass-marketCarnival Cruise Line, focused on larger party ships for younger travelers, and Holland America Line, whose smaller ships cultivate an image of classic elegance.[16]
Timeline
The first large cruise ships were the Voyager-class from Royal Caribbean Group's Royal Caribbean International (RCI). These ships, which debuted in 1998 at over 137,000GT, were almost 30,000GT larger than the next-largest cruise ships, and were some of the first designed to offer amenities unrelated to cruising, such as an ice rink and climbing wall.[1] In 2004, the five Voyager-class ships were overtaken by the 148,528GT Queen Mary 2 (QM2), the first non-RCI passenger ship over 135,000GT and the only passenger ship currently in service that classifies itself as an ocean liner. The QM2 was surpassed by RCI's 155,889 GT Freedom-class vessels in 2006, which were in turn overtaken by RCI's first of six planned Oasis-class vessels in 2009.[17] The Oasis-class ships, at over 225,000GT, are at least 154 feet (47 m) wide, 240 feet (73 m) high, and accommodate over 5,400 passengers.[18] Oasis-class ships were surpassed by the first Icon-class ship, Icon of the Seas, at 248,663GT in 2023.
^Ships are ranked by gross tonnage and subsequently by the date they entered service.
^The cruise line that currently operates the ship, which in some cases may be different than the line that ordered the ship or from the holding company that technically owns it
^The year the ship originally entered service, which in some cases may not be the year it started service under the listed cruise line or with the listed name
^Width at the widest point anywhere on the ship's height
^Width at the widest point as measured at the ship's nominal waterline
^Where official sources do not specify double occupancy capacity or lower berths capacity, this list assumes two passengers per stateroom (some ships have small rooms that only count as a single passenger when calculating double-occupancy).
^Maximum capacity of the ship, usually determined by total number of beds and/or SOLAS safety standards
As of October 2024[update], 32 passenger ships were on order or under construction with a publicly announced size of over 140,000GT. RCI has three Icon-class cruise ships on order and two options, with expected delivery in 2025, 2026 and 2027.[149][150] RCI also has one Oasis-class ship on order for 2028. While its exact size is not published, RCI has previously stated that each new Oasis-class ship will be a little larger than the last.[151]Celebrity Cruises, which is owned by RCI's parent company Royal Caribbean Group, will introduce a 140,600 GT Edge-class ships in 2025,[152] and TUI Cruises, a joint venture between Royal Caribbean Group and TUI Group, are introducing a new class of 161,000 GT cruise ships in 2024 and 2026.[153]
Asia-based Dream Cruises, which went bankrupt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, had been planning to take delivery of two 208,000 GT Global-class ships in 2021 and 2022, which would have been the first ships over 200,000GT not built for RCI, with the largest maximum passenger capacity, 9,500, of any ship.[154][51] One unfinished ship, formerly the Global Dream, was sold to Disney Cruise Line and is expected to debut in 2025 [107] as the Disney Adventure, while the other was sent for scrapping.[52]
MSC Cruises has three additional World-class ships planned for 2024, 2025, and 2027, and at 215,800GT and a capacity of 6,762 passengers; they will have the highest passengers capacities and will be the largest ships operated by a cruise line other than Royal Caribbean.[155][156][38]
Carnival Corporation has two more 183,200–183,900 GT Excellence-class cruise ships planned to debut in 2027 and 2028.[157]
Each year from 2023 to 2027, the Norwegian Cruise Line will debut additional ships from the Prima class. The Prima-class ships are expected to be 142,500GT and carry 3,215 to 3,550 passengers.[158] Additionally, Norwegian Cruise Line is expected to take delivery of four approximately 200,000-gross-ton ships, each with a capacity of nearly 5,000 guests, in 2030, 2032, 2034 and 2036, which are subject to financing.[159]
Disney Cruise Line will launch two more 144,000 GT Triton-class ships in 2024, and 2025. These ships will have 1,250 staterooms, like the line's previous two ships, but will be 14,000GT larger than those ships and powered by liquified natural gas fuel.[131]
^Width at the widest point anywhere on the ship's height
^Width at the widest point as measured at the ship's nominal waterline
^Where official sources do not specify double occupancy capacity or lower berths capacity, this list assumes two passengers per stateroom (some ships have small rooms that only count as a single passenger when calculating double-occupancy).
^Maximum capacity of the ship, usually determined by total number of beds and/or SOLAS safety standards
^Saunders, Aaron (19 December 2013). Giants of the Sea: The Ships that Transformed Modern Cruising. Seaforth Publishing. ChapterSun Princess. ISBN978-1-84832-172-4.
^ abc"Oasis of the Seas Fact Sheet". Royal Caribbean Press Center. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
^ abcd"Spectrum of the Seas Fast Facts". Royal Caribbean Press Center. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. April 2019. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
^ abc"Quantum of the Seas Fact Sheet". Royal Caribbean Press Center. Royal Caribbean International. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
^ abc"Anthem of the Seas Fact Sheet". Royal Caribbean Press Center. Royal Caribbean International. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
^ abc"Ovation of the Seas Fact Sheet". Royal Caribbean Press Center. Royal Caribbean International. Archived from the original on 17 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
^ abcde"33557". Vessel Register for DNV. DNV. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
^ abc"Genting Dream delivered". www.meyerwerft.de (Press release). 12 October 2016. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^ ab"Delivery of World Dream". Meyer Werft (Press release). 26 October 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
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