The classic White Star ship was an ocean liner, while the contemporary Royal Caribbean ship is a cruise ship. The Titanic, built over 100 years ago, was hailed as the largest and most luxurious ship of its time. However, it doesn’t come close to modern cruise ships in terms of size, design, technology, and cultural impact.
When comparing the Titanic to modern cruise ships, it’s important to note that the Titanic was huge for its time and age. Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, is much larger than the iconic RMS Titanic, with a gross tonnage of 228,081 and a height of 1,188 feet. Most modern cruise ships are still quite a bit larger than the Titanic.
The Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, will take up to 10,000 guests and crew members around the Caribbean on its maiden voyage next year. At about five times the size of the Titanic, the Icon of the Seas is set to launch as the world’s largest cruise ship in early 2024, measuring 365 meters.
📹 Titanic vs world’s largest cruise ship!
Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas holds the title as the world’s largest cruise ship, so how does it compare to the most …
📹 Titanic Meets Icon of the Seas
Titanic Meets Icon of the Seas IOTS horn is from James R. Barker #titanic #royalcaribbean #iconoftheseas.
This article to be honest is so wholesome. Imagine seeing First Class passengers on the Titanic while you’re on the Icon of The Seas paying tribute to the fallen souls that passed away on that horrific night in 1912. Just seeing the Icon of The Seas paying tribute to the Titanic was a wholesome moment. ❤
I’m not sure why everyone here is bashing the Icon. It’s designed for a leisurely cruise around the warm Caribbean waters, with amenities for families to have fun. The Titanic was designed for crossing the cold and rough waters of the Atlantic. One is a cruise ship, the other was an ocean liner. To say that the Icon couldn’t handle an iceberg is like complaining that your car wouldn’t handle a combat zone as well as a tank. That’s not what it was design for. And complaining that Icon isn’t as classy as Titanic is like saying that Disneyland isn’t as classy as high tea at some posh English hotel. That’s not the atmosphere it was meant for. A far better comparison would be with the Queen Mary 2, which IS an ocean liner designed for trans-Atlantic crossings, and which DOES have fancy, black tie dinners and events, like one would find on the Titanic.
2 different types of ships. In its day, people had to cross the ocean by ship because planes weren’t capable of doing it yet. It was luxurious of course but it was a necessity. Now people go on ocean cruises simply because they want to. It’s simply a vacation. The Titanic was designed with speed in mind, that’s why it’s shaped like it is. The Icon is simply a floating resort.
These ships are NOT in the same class, category nor purpose… the IOTS is a CRUISE SHIP… the Titanic is an OCEAN LINER. Cruise Ships: Built to transport large numbers of passengers on slow, fancy floating hotels and casinos to exotic locations for pleasure at leisure Ocean Liners: Built to transport people at speed across oceans for reason of transport… there are no exotic stops, this is a trans-ocean transport They really shouldn’t be compared to one another, they were built for completely different reasons and hence designed expressly for those purposes… it’s like comparing a Greyhound Bus to a Lamborghini… they just aren’t designed for the same reason and would completely fail if used for what the other was built (a Greyhound Bus can’t do what Lamborghini does, and a Lamborghini certainly can’t do what a Greyhound Bus can do). Why compare them?
What’s funny is Titanic wasn’t really trying to be as large as possible, it has three decks on top of the hull aka the superstructure, and outclasses it instantly. You know what else modern day can’t win at? Automobile size. The 1912 Oldsmobile Limited has a front hood at 5’7 feet tall, huge spoke tires, and is nearly twice the size of a modern car.
One ship that fewer people know about these days was and still the fastest ocean liner the SS United States. One hundred ten feet longer than the Titanic, its maiden voyage was July, 1952 and broke all transatlantic speed records east bound and westbound, ‘this record still stands unbroken to this day. I sailed on this ship across the Atlantic as 12 year old boy
Titanic was a liner, a way to get across the ocean in reasonable comfort as quickly as possible. The modern equivalent is a Boeing 777. The icon of the seas is a coastal barge with questionable safety and sanitation for the purpose of giving a cheap vacation for old people. The period equivalent is a riverboat casino. Completely different things.
The Titanic has style. The Icon looks like a lump of plastic. The Titanic, like the ships of that era, was an ocean liner built to handle rough seas. Today’s cruise ships aren’t built that way and are more fragile than genuine ocean liners. Hell, the iceberg Titanic hit would rip open a modern cruise ship.
In all honesty when I first saw the Icon of the Seas I laughed pretty hard. I looked at a picture of the Oasis class and thought “yeah, sure, that dome looks pretty dumb” but the Icon just takes it another lever in looking like they just stapled a bunch of colourful crap to the top and called it a day. Absolutely magnificent, I don’t think the naval architects of old would be sure whether to be amazed or horrified, and I think there’s a kind of beauty in that. Also the sudden return to flat bows is ugly as shit, functional or not.
Wouldn’t it be great to build a replica of the Titanic and fit her out for leisurely Atlantic crossings or other cruising, the way it was meant to be – without shopping malls, glittering casinos, or gaudy entertainment parks. Can you imagine what it would be like enjoying a real cruise aboard a real liner such as the Titanic without mobile phones and all the other hullabaloo of modern ships?
Not comparing like with like though really, Icon is a cruise ship. The Titanic was an ocean liner. The two are different beasts. One is built as a massive pleasure craft basically, just wandering the seas. The other was built as a means of transport across the Atlantic in a faster time as possible, which has since been replaced by the jet airliner. And has been pointed out, there is over a century of advancement between the two. Still a nice comparison though and great imagery.
Even though the Icon of the Seas is almost thrice the width and height of the Titanic, modern luxury ships can never match how ornate and detailed ships like the Titanic were over a century ago. Take the iconic Grand Staircase in the Titanic for instance,nothing like that has ever been built since, because that would take an immense amount of time and money,both of which no company is willing to spend. Everything today is built by the lowest bidder and by automation that can never duplicate how beautiful and original the design aesthetic was.
I don’t know why there’s so much hate with cruise ships. They may not be as aesthetically beautiful compared to the older ocean liners but they’re fun. Their purpose is for leisure and entertainment and caters people from different walks of life, not just for the rich. I don’t think Titanic was the best ocean liner. I much prefer SS Normandie because it was far more luxurious and elegant than Titanic.
They are different kinds of ships – Icon of the Seas is a cruise ship whereas the Titanic was a liner. Cruise ships are designed to do exact that – cruise about visiting places, whereas a liner is designed for speed. The Titanic was the Boeing 747 of its day – designed to get a lot of people from the UK to the States as quickly as possible.