The largest cruise ships in the world. The largest cruise ships (22 photos) Cruise ship “Oasis of the Seas”

Cruise ships are often called cities at sea, and this description is most accurate for them. To understand how huge such ships can be, a comparison can be made with the infamous Titanic. If it had been built in our time, it would not even be in the Top 50. In this list, I will tell you about the 10 largest cruise ships in the world, all of which were built relatively recently, after 2000. Many of them also have twin brothers, who are equally large in size.

Royal Carribean. Oasis of the Seas

This vessel weighs 225,282 tons, is 361.7 meters long and has an official capacity of 5,400 passengers in maximum luxury and comfort. Oasis of the Seas is one of the few ships that cannot sail through the Panama Canal. Not only is it too long for the canal, but it is also too tall and wide. On board you can feel like you are in a huge amusement park. Large-scale shows are held here, not inferior to Broadway, and sports fans can do anything, even rock climbing. The crew serving the ship and passengers numbers 2,400 people.

Queen Mary II

This ship weighs 151,400 tons and is 345 meters long. The official capacity is 2640 passengers. To get an idea of how huge this ship is, you could put 80 large tourist buses bumper to bumper - that would be comparable in length to the Queen Mary II. At each end of the ship you can place football field, and there will still be room to install a whole Big Ben on the deck. At the time of construction in 2004, it was the most big ship in the world.

Disney Dream

This ship weighs 130,000 tons and is 340 meters long. Disney Dream seats 2,500 people and is a miniature version of Disneyland at sea. There is a huge cinema and many other entertainment options, including a water park.

Freedom of the Seas

The ship weighs 160,000 tons and is 339 meters long. The ship can accommodate 3,634 passengers. It is sometimes compared to a floating water park; it has water slides, many pools, a jacuzzi, and a wave simulator. There is also a water park for children called H2O and even a skating rink for ice skating enthusiasts.

Splendida

This cruise ship weighs 137,936 tons and reaches 338 meters in length. Its capacity is 3274 passengers. The volume of space on board is simply colossal - it is one and a half million square meters, which exceeds the total volume of space, for example, the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Norwegian Epic

This vessel weighs 155,873 tons and is 329 meters long. Capacity - 4100 passengers. This cruise ship was launched in 2010 and is so huge that 5 lifeboats had to be removed to enter New York Harbor. On board you will also find a lot of entertainment, restaurants, and attractions. There is even 24-hour pizza delivery to your room. We have already mentioned this ship, like many others, in our selection of the largest ship propellers in the world.

Celebrity Eclipse

The weight of this vessel is 122,000 tons, and the length is 315 meters. Even if you lined up four Boeing 747s, they would still not exceed the length of this cruise ship. The ship has 19 decks, including a lawn deck where you can play croquet and bocce.

Voyager of the seas

This vessel weighs 138 tons and is 311 meters long. It can accommodate 3114 passengers. This is one of the first super-giant cruise ships, it has everything you need for a comfortable holiday - its own television studio, ice skating rink, mini golf course with nine holes and much more interesting things.

Carnival Dream

The weight of this liner is 130,000 tons, and the length is 306 meters. Capacity - 3646 people. This ship is a real floating amusement park; there are even several cinemas with screens of different sizes.

Princess Diamond

Rounding out the top ten largest cruise ships is a ship weighing 116,000 tons and 294 meters long, accommodating 2,670 people. Despite being in tenth place, it is several times larger in area than, for example, Buckingham Palace, or five times larger than the Taj Mahal. There are more than seven hundred high-class cabins with balconies.

Some of the largest moving objects created by man are ships. There are a large number of all kinds of ships used for a variety of purposes. There are quite a lot of huge ships, but there are even more big ones, so instead of listing them all, we decided to make a rating of the most large ships in his class, which included only 9 representatives, but what kind!

9 Yacht “Eclipse”

Our rating opens with the largest and expensive yacht in the world, which belongs to one of richest people Russia to Roman Abramovich. The yacht was launched in 2009 in Hamburg and was equipped with a 12-seater mini-sub, a missile warning system, bulletproof glass, two helicopters with landing pads, four pleasure boats, 20 motor scooters and infrared lasers that prevent shooting with digital equipment. . The yacht itself consists of 9 decks, on which there is a cabin with an area of 500 square meters with a stage and a piano, a personal deck of the owner 56 meters long, 11 luxury cabins for 24 passengers, a gym with a sauna, a 16-meter long swimming pool, a cinema room, a dance hall, two kitchens and staff rooms for 92 people. The number of crew and maintenance personnel is 70 people. The length of the yacht is 162 meters, width – 21 meters, displacement – 13,000 tons. The cost of the yacht is 340 million euros.

8 Ulysses ferry

This world's largest passenger ferry is the pride of Ireland. It operates 4 flights per day, covering 230 kilometers per flight between the UK and Ireland. In addition to passengers, this ferry also carries a lot of all kinds of cargo, and the reason for this is the island lifestyle of the nation, which requires an inexhaustible turnover of goods, which depends on sea routes. The sea ferry “Ulysses” can be loaded and unloaded in 90 minutes thanks to its ingenious design, which allows loading and unloading on two decks simultaneously. There are 117 double and 110 single cabins on board.

From the boarding ramp, passengers enter a main lobby that rivals a luxury hotel. The cabins offer all the benefits of a regular hotel room, huge shopping mall, cinema and restaurants are on other decks. The passenger ferry is twice the size of its predecessors and is not afraid of ten-meter waves. The cargo-passenger ship has 12 decks and four kilometers of lanes for the movement of vehicles. Its length is 209 meters, width is 31 meters, displacement is 50,000 tons. The ferry can accommodate: trucks or trailers - 240 units, cars - 1342 units, passengers - 1900 people.

7 Livestock ship “Stella Deneb”

The world's largest livestock ship was launched in 1980. One of the largest livestock shipping companies, “Siba Ships,” carried out the world's largest transportation of animals in 2007. The route ran from the port of Townsville, Australia to one of the ports in Indonesia. 20,060 heads of cattle and 2,564 heads of sheep and goats were loaded on board the vessel “Stella Deneb”. To deliver the animals to the port, 28 trains were used. All transport was carried out under the vigilant supervision and control of veterinary services and met the highest standards. Delivery of such a batch of artiodactyls to the customer cost 11.5 million Australian dollars. The ship can carry cargo weighing up to 21,525 tons, its length is 213 meters and its width is 32 meters.

6 Ship transport ship "MV Blue Marlin"

This unique and impressive Norwegian ship is designed to transport unfinished or damaged ships, oil platforms, cranes, piers and other ships and structures that need to be transported by water. MV Blue Marlin, for example, was used to transport a BP oil platform and a damaged US warship and even an entire oil refinery, whose transportation became the basis of one of the plots of the television show “Extreme Engineering” on the Discovery Channel television channel, as well as the TV show “Mega” Movers,” which aired on the History Channel. The principle of operation of the vessel is that it dives several meters under water and floats under the object that needs to be transported. The ship is equipped with a gym, sauna, swimming pool and 38 cabins, which can easily accommodate 60 people. Length – 217 meters, width – 42 meters, height – 13 meters, carrying capacity – 56,000 metric tons, immersion depth – 10 meters.

5 Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz

The world's largest American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the largest warship, was launched on May 13, 1972. He made his first voyage to the Mediterranean Sea, becoming the first American ship with a nuclear power plant to enter the Mediterranean Sea in ten years. In 1988, he provided security during the Olympic Games in Seoul. In 1991 he made a trip to Persian Gulf, participated in Operation Desert Storm. Since 2003, he has been involved in the war in Iraq. The length of the ship is 332 meters, width - 76 meters, power - 260,000 horsepower, crew - 3,200 people, 90 helicopters can fit on board.

4 Tanker "Xin Buyan"

The largest operating tanker was built in the People's Republic of China in Guangzhou using its own Chinese technologies. Construction of the tanker began in 2008. Launched at the beginning of 2010. The Xin Buyan tanker, with a displacement of 350,000 tons, is currently the most modern and one of the largest in the world. The length of the ship's deck is 333 meters, which is more than the size of three football fields. The width of the tanker reaches 60 meters. "Xin Buyan" is designed to transport up to 308,000 tons of oil. As noted in China, the tanker is equipped with one of the most modern automatic navigation systems in the world; it is designed for any weather and is capable of circumnavigating the world in 60 days.

3 Bulk carrier "MS Vale Brasil"

The Brazilian cargo ship, the largest in the world, was launched on December 31, 2010. The ship's first cargo was iron ore weighing 391,000 tons, which had to be transported from a port in Brazil to China. This iron would be enough to build three Golden Gate Bridges in the United States, and there would still be some left. Due to the size of the bulk carrier, it can dock in only a few ports in Brazil, Europe and China. The ship has seven cargo compartments, the total area of which is almost 220 cubic meters. The length of the ship is 360 meters, width is 65 meters, the crew consists of 33 people.

2 Cruise ship Oasis of the Seas

The largest cruise ship in the world was launched on November 21, 2008. The christening ceremony for Oasis of the Seas took place on November 30, 2009 in Fort Lauderdale. She set off on her maiden voyage from Oasis of the Seas on December 5, 2009. The program included a one-week cruise calling at St. Thomas, Sint Maarten and the Bahamas. At the time of the first voyage, only these ports could accommodate such a huge ship. Oasis of the Seas cruises throughout the year in the Caribbean. For the first time in the world, a park of 12 thousand exotic, living plants and shrubs and 56 trees was planted on the ship.

On board the ship there are swimming pools with Jacuzzis, a water park with a water arena, a casino, shops and boutiques where you can buy any food and clothing for every taste, restaurants and bars. There is a 750-seat water amphitheater with outdoor fountains, diving boards and diving towers and a 1,300-seat indoor theater, as well as the largest casino in the world's cruise fleet and much more. The maximum speed of the aircraft is 43 km/h. The body weighs 45,000 tons and consists of 480,000 parts. The length of the ship is 362 meters, width – 60 meters, height – 72 meters, power – 132,000 horsepower, crew – 2,165 people, number of passengers – 6,400.

1 Container ship “Emma Marsk”

The largest cargo ship is a container ship owned by the Danish company A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. The ship was named by the owner of the shipbuilding company in honor of his late wife Emma. Emma Marsk travels approximately 170,000 nautical miles per year, which corresponds to more than 7 distances around the Earth. When fully loaded, Emma Marsk can accommodate 11,000 full 20-foot containers or 14,700 empty containers. On March 18, 2011, the Royal Danish Mint issued a 20 kroner coin dedicated to the container ship Emma Marsk. The length of the vessel is 397 meters, width - 63 meters, height - 30 meters, carrying capacity - 123,000 tons, power - 109,000 horsepower, loading is possible immediately from 11 cranes, the captain's bridge is located on the 10th floor of the ship's superstructure. Due to the size of the vessel, the Panama Canal is closed to it.

A famous showman and TV presenter, returning from a cruise Caribbean Islands on board the world's largest ship, told FACTS about the miracle ship and its exotic route

Andrey Dzhedzhula is one of the first of our compatriots who was lucky enough to travel on the world's largest cruise ship, Oasis of the seas, launched last year. The length of the 16-deck ship is about 361 meters, width - 66 meters, and height highest point above the water line - 72 meters. Designed for 6 thousand 360 passengers and 2 thousand 100 crew, the liner cost the customer almost one and a half billion dollars.

“A dress that sells for a thousand dollars in Kyiv can be bought for 150 in Miami”

This is a real city with a huge amount boutiques, restaurants, discos, swimming pools, fitness and spa centers,” Andrey Dzhedzhula shares his impressions. - Grandiose aqua shows and ice performances are organized on the ship. There is even a garden on board with about 12 thousand plants. Beautiful place! Every morning you wake up in a different place on the planet.

What was your route?

We started from Miami. We did some shopping there first, since some of my friends had “lost” their luggage. I never expected that everything that costs so much in Ukraine can cost so little there. For example, a dress that sells for a thousand dollars in Kyiv can be bought in Miami for 150 dollars.

After shopping we went to the port and, having checked in, got on board the ship - and much faster than you usually get on a plane. But about six thousand people registered! Everything is thought out: there are separate exits and entrances everywhere - depending on the location of the cabins on the ship. First stop - the pirate island of St. Thomas ( Virgin Islands). The pirate theme is reflected on all souvenirs here. Very beautiful beaches. Huge imposing iguanas crawl around the water! And so they strive to get under your feet. I even fed them. Then they landed on the island of Saint Martin, divided between the French and the Dutch. Half of the population on it has French passports, the other half has Dutch documents. And the island itself is the size of our Brovary (laughs). There are countless tourists here, so the prices for souvenirs are sky-high.

You are an experienced traveler. I wonder what shocked me this time?

The first shock, of course, was the ship itself. A huge football field, a basketball court, a stadium for lovers of morning jogging, rock-climbing slides, for extreme sports enthusiasts - a simulator of a high surf wave in the pool, a “bungee” on which you soar ten floors down in free flight

I read that the ship is equipped with last word technology.

This is true. Everything there is thought out to the smallest detail, there are ultra-modern elevators everywhere, including for the disabled. One of the passengers was completely motionless. Neither his legs nor his arms worked, the man did not part with a catheter and an oxygen mask. He steered his wheelchair using a special device in the pupil. By the way, there were a lot of travelers in electric chairs.

How long does it take to walk around the entire ship?

I admit, I still haven’t gotten around it in a week! Although he was constantly on the move.

You could probably get lost on such a huge ship.

No no! At every step there is a “virtual guide” in the form of an electronic model of the ship. You press a button or enter a word, and it becomes clear where you are in this moment or how to get from point A to point B.

Have you ever felt like you were not on a ship, but on land?

Yes, there was no pitching at all. You can put a wine glass on the table and it will not move a millimeter, the handle will not roll. Only once did the ship rock slightly when we were sailing off the coast of Haiti, where there was an earthquake. There was a terrible storm overboard at that time, but we felt only a slight vibration.

Are the cabins on the ship luxurious?

Nothing supernatural, but very comfortable, there are even two-story apartments. I took the "sea view" cabin. There were also so-called “inner courtyard” rooms, that is, with a view of the garden. Each cabin has a TV. One channel constantly broadcasts a live view from the bow of the ship.

“Ordering a limousine in New York is cheaper than taking several taxis for a large group.”

How were you fed? Was anything special served?

They prepared different dishes, and probably the entire world cuisine was represented! The ship employs personnel from 80 countries. A very unusual “floating bar”, which smoothly rises up and then falls down. Reminds me of a flying saucer.

You can probably get drunk in no time wearing this.

Yes (smiles). People drank there all the time.

Luxury hotels often give pleasant gifts to guests. Did they give you anything?

Only one passenger was given a gift. He lost 100 thousand dollars in a casino, and he was presented with four trips to this liner.

How for what? Valuable passenger! This one will play again and again.

By the way, how much did the trip cost you?

Expensive, more than a thousand dollars. On the liner, however, there was no need for cash at all. You pay for everything with a credit card. By the way, you enter it into the terminal when you leave the ship and when you return. This system is designed to ensure that none of the passengers are forgotten on the shore or lost. True, if a person does not show up on the ship on time, several thousand people are unlikely to wait for him.

What did you buy to remember your trip?

Fridge magnets - nothing special was found.

What struck you in Nassau?

Nassau is the port “registration” for many liners. There aren't any! Even the Disney ship exists for families with children. Our liner, of course, stood out for its size. He was taller than everyone else, grandiose.

Did you go back along the same route?

We didn't stop at all on the way back. It took exactly 24 hours to get to Miami, and from there we flew to New York. There, however, they experienced stress: they reported that Kennedy Airport was mined. We were not allowed off the plane for three hours. When everyone finally got out, they decided to do something nice for themselves: they ordered a limousine - it was cheaper than taking several taxis for a large group. In New York taxis, riding in the front seat is often prohibited. A special partition made of impenetrable glass separates the driver from the passengers. This is due to the fact that taxi drivers are often attacked. Given this situation, two or three people can fit in a taxi, and there were eight of us. And we fit in the limousine.

And we also feasted on the best sushi in the world in New York - huge, like our chops, made from the freshest fish, with a minimum of rice. What else? We visited the museum where the film “Night at the Museum” was filmed, went to the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” walked along Wall Street, took a helicopter tour over New York, and did a little shopping.

In a word, we had a great time

1. Royal Caribbean. Oasis of the Seas
This vessel weighs 225,282 tons, is 361.7 meters long and has an official capacity of 5,400 passengers in maximum luxury and comfort. Oasis of the Seas is one of the few ships that cannot sail through the Panama Canal. Not only is it too long for the canal, but it is also too tall and wide. On board you can feel like you are in a huge amusement park. Large-scale shows are held here, not inferior to Broadway, and sports fans can do anything, even rock climbing. The crew serving the ship and passengers numbers 2,400 people

2.Queen Mary II
This ship weighs 151,400 tons and is 345 meters long. The official capacity is 2640 passengers. To get an idea of how huge this ship is, you could put 80 large tourist buses bumper to bumper - that would be comparable in length to the Queen Mary II. At each end of the ship you can place a football field, and there will still be room to install an entire Big Ben on the deck. At the time of construction in 2004, it was the largest ship in the world.

3. Disney Dream
This ship weighs 130,000 tons and is 340 meters long. Disney Dream seats 2,500 people and is a miniature version of Disneyland at sea. There is a huge cinema and many other entertainment options, including a water park.

4. Freedom of the Seas
The ship weighs 160,000 tons and is 339 meters long. The ship can accommodate 3,634 passengers. It is sometimes compared to a floating water park; it has water slides, many pools, a jacuzzi, and a wave simulator. There is also a water park for children called H2O and even a skating rink for ice skating enthusiasts.

5. Splendida
This cruise ship weighs 137,936 tons and reaches 338 meters in length. Its capacity is 3274 passengers. The volume of space on board is simply colossal - it is one and a half million square meters, which exceeds the total volume of space, for example, Eiffel Tower in Paris.

6. Norwegian Epic
This vessel weighs 155,873 tons and is 329 meters long. Capacity - 4100 passengers. This cruise ship was launched in 2010 and is so huge that 5 lifeboats had to be removed to enter New York Harbor. On board you will also find a lot of entertainment, restaurants, and attractions. There is even 24-hour pizza delivery to your room.

7.Celebrity Eclipse
The weight of this vessel is 122,000 tons, and the length is 315 meters. Even if you lined up four Boeing 747s, they would still not exceed the length of this cruise ship. The ship has 19 decks, including a lawn deck where you can play croquet and bocce.

8. Voyager of the seas
This ship weighs 138 thousand tons and is 311 meters long. It can accommodate 3114 passengers. This is one of the first super-giant cruise ships, it has everything you need for a comfortable holiday - its own television studio, ice skating rink, mini golf course with nine holes and much more interesting things.

9. Carnival Dream
The weight of this liner is 130,000 tons, and the length is 306 meters. Capacity - 3646 people. This ship is a real floating amusement park; there are even several cinemas with screens of different sizes.

10. Princess Diamond
Rounding out the top ten largest cruise ships is a ship weighing 116,000 tons and 294 meters long, accommodating 2,670 people. Despite being in tenth place, it is several times larger in area than, for example, Buckingham Palace, or five times larger than the Taj Mahal. There are more than seven hundred high-class cabins with balconies.