Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!
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We've got all the others, except ships!
Someone posted this in the Aircraft one, and its pretty amazing!
And The Freedom Of The Seas.. The sheer size of the thing, and its facts..
* The ship has 30 lifeboats.
* It is about 229 ft (69.80 m) longer, about 108,000 GT larger, and can accommodate 2,147 more passengers than RMS Titanic.
* It has 75,000 lightbulbs and 4,700 works of art, and uses 35,000 kg of ice daily.
* It has 1.5 million tiles in the bathrooms, shower rooms, etc.
* The largest suite, the Presidential Suite, is 113 square meters, accommodate 14 people and has ten flat panel TVs, a private whirlpool, a wet bar, and a Yamaha GC1 baby-grand piano.
* Rooms for the maiden voyage were priced from $1,900 to $22,000 for the week.
* It consumes approximately 28,000 pounds (12,800 kg) of fuel per hour, enough to refill a 13 gallon tank in a car at one tank a week for over six years.
* It is one of the few ships with 4 bow thrusters on each side with 8 bow thrusters in total.
Provisions
During a typical week long cruise, the Freedom of the Seas goes through the following amount of food:
* 234,000 appetizers (6 appetizers per day per person); 105,000 meals and 300,680 desserts (7.5 desserts per day per person)
* 20,000 lbs. of beef, including 69,000 steaks (1.7 steaks per day per person)
* 12,000 lbs. of chicken
* 4,000 lbs. of seafood; 2,500 lbs. of salmon and 1,400 lbs. of lobster
* 65,000 lbs. of fresh vegetables and 35,000 lbs. of fresh fruits (2.5 lbs. of fruit and veg per day per person)
* 5,800 lbs. of cheese
* 28,000 fresh eggs
* 18,000 slices of pizza
* 8,000 gallons of ice cream
* 1,500 lbs. of coffee and 1,500 gallons of milk
* 11,500 cans of soda; 19,200 bottles and cans of beer and 2,900 bottles of wine
Someone posted this in the Aircraft one, and its pretty amazing!
And The Freedom Of The Seas.. The sheer size of the thing, and its facts..
* The ship has 30 lifeboats.
* It is about 229 ft (69.80 m) longer, about 108,000 GT larger, and can accommodate 2,147 more passengers than RMS Titanic.
* It has 75,000 lightbulbs and 4,700 works of art, and uses 35,000 kg of ice daily.
* It has 1.5 million tiles in the bathrooms, shower rooms, etc.
* The largest suite, the Presidential Suite, is 113 square meters, accommodate 14 people and has ten flat panel TVs, a private whirlpool, a wet bar, and a Yamaha GC1 baby-grand piano.
* Rooms for the maiden voyage were priced from $1,900 to $22,000 for the week.
* It consumes approximately 28,000 pounds (12,800 kg) of fuel per hour, enough to refill a 13 gallon tank in a car at one tank a week for over six years.
* It is one of the few ships with 4 bow thrusters on each side with 8 bow thrusters in total.
Provisions
During a typical week long cruise, the Freedom of the Seas goes through the following amount of food:
* 234,000 appetizers (6 appetizers per day per person); 105,000 meals and 300,680 desserts (7.5 desserts per day per person)
* 20,000 lbs. of beef, including 69,000 steaks (1.7 steaks per day per person)
* 12,000 lbs. of chicken
* 4,000 lbs. of seafood; 2,500 lbs. of salmon and 1,400 lbs. of lobster
* 65,000 lbs. of fresh vegetables and 35,000 lbs. of fresh fruits (2.5 lbs. of fruit and veg per day per person)
* 5,800 lbs. of cheese
* 28,000 fresh eggs
* 18,000 slices of pizza
* 8,000 gallons of ice cream
* 1,500 lbs. of coffee and 1,500 gallons of milk
* 11,500 cans of soda; 19,200 bottles and cans of beer and 2,900 bottles of wine
FourWheelDrift said:
Jonny671 said:
Sorry, but whats the point in the Nuclear Ice breakers?
[Clarkson] Powwwwwwwweeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr [/Clarkson]And they won't run out of fuel and freeze to death if they do get stuck in the ice.
Surely smashing through ice is a pointless excercise?
Nickyboy said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Not so much cool, as sad.
SS Blue Lady, (ex-SS Norway, ex-SS France) driven into the beach at Alang India for scrapping 2007-2008. Before the building of the Queen Mary 2 this was the longest passenger ship ever built.
Plenty of ships waiting to be broken up here inc an aircraft carrier http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...SS Blue Lady, (ex-SS Norway, ex-SS France) driven into the beach at Alang India for scrapping 2007-2008. Before the building of the Queen Mary 2 this was the longest passenger ship ever built.
(I'd link it, but for some reason maps doesn't remember where your looking)
Edited by Jonny671 on Sunday 3rd May 21:09
Alfa_75_Steve said:
This one:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...
(It's easy to link, you just use the 'link' button!)
Thats the one! It looks abit weird.http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...
(It's easy to link, you just use the 'link' button!)
(Oh! Thanks, I never noticed that Link button there
)
Jesus, i'd love to see pictures of;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(yacht)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_(yacht)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Said_(yacht)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Abdulaziz
If thats the size of the 8th Largest Yacht.
I also want to go to Southampton/Portsmouth next time 'Of The Seas' is in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(yacht)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_(yacht)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Said_(yacht)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Abdulaziz
If thats the size of the 8th Largest Yacht.
I also want to go to Southampton/Portsmouth next time 'Of The Seas' is in.
s111dpc said:
Jonny671 said:
Right, i'm off to Southampton on Saturday..
05:15 04/07/2009 Independence Of The Seas Intercruises 17:00 04/07/2009 101
Thats the one I want to see
SWMBO has just got back from a 10 day cruise on this little liner. Quite an amazing ship both inside and out by all accounts.05:15 04/07/2009 Independence Of The Seas Intercruises 17:00 04/07/2009 101
Thats the one I want to see
I'd love to go on a cruise on one of these.. I was going to go Saturday but was too busy so am going on the 18th I think!
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