superliner?

[aussiescouser]

:confused: What is it that makes a ship a superliner? the size in tonnes, the amount of ppl it can carry. i was also very suprised to hear that the pacific dawn fits under the harbour bridge as i had this great big picture in my mind of a superliner being alot bigger than the sun, and there is not much of a diff in height......:confused: apparently...can someone please enlighten me.thanks

[icemaiden2310]

:confused: What is it that makes a ship a superliner? the size in tonnes, the amount of ppl it can carry. i was also very suprised to hear that the pacific dawn fits under the harbour bridge as i had this great big picture in my mind of a superliner being alot bigger than the sun, and there is not much of a diff in height......:confused: apparently...can someone please enlighten me.thanks

 

Heres a Wicki definition of superliner

 

Superliner (passenger ship)

 

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"Superliner" is a term sometimes used for an ocean liner of over 10,000 gross tons. The term was coined in the late 19th century, when ocean liners were rapidly increasing in size and speed. Superliners were the primary means of intercontinental travel in the first half of the twentieth century, as passengers favoured large, fast ships.

Some famous superliners include the RMS Titanic, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, RMS Mauretania, Ile de France, Normandie, SS France, RMS Queen Mary and SS United States.

For several decades, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) operated as the world's only superliner, as only Cunard offered regularly-scheduled transatlantic passages. In 2004 Cunard commissioned the RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2), which took over the transatlantic routes and relegated the QE2 to cruise ship duty, thereby making the QM2 the only superliner in service. At 148,528 gross tons, she is almost fifteen times larger than the first superliners. Technically, she is also a cruise ship since she has all the attributes required for cruise ship operations, and engages in them in addition to the regular transatlantic crossings typical of the historical superliners.

While Royal Caribbean International's Freedom of the Seas has replaced QM2 as the largest operating cruise ship in the world, it is not technically a superliner as it does not make transatlantic crossings. Similarly, there are many other cruise ships that would qualify as superliners if not for the fact that they do not regularly travel across oceans.

[kaseyoz]

the sun Princess also fits under the bridge,it will be sailing from darling harbour

[arxcards]

the sun Princess also fits under the bridge,it will be sailing from darling harbour

 

As Kasey says, this will fit under this bridge.The stacks on the 4 Sun Class sister ships will clear the bridge by approx 4 metres -

Sun Princess, Dawn Princess, Sea Princess, Oceana.

 

Thanks for the wikipedia info icemaiden. Am curious how P&O is promoting Pacific Dawn as Australia's first superliner though. Surely there is a problem fitting into the above description.

 

Cheers

Geoff

[bawn2cruz]

I recently read - but can't remember where - that a 'super liner' is generally classified as a vessel of 70000 tons or more. So PD just scrapes in!

 

Roy