Steerage pneumatically seals its bulkheads from the rest of the ship in the case of flooding.
Posted on 05/13/2016 7:19:43 AM PDT by C19fan
The population density is so high that cruise ships are essentially floating socialist utopias. Big city people are at home but conservatives are country people at heart. Often the only news source permitted by the central planning committee is the Communist News Network.
Steerage pneumatically seals its bulkheads from the rest of the ship in the case of flooding.
Bruce McCall tells of the voyage:
R.M.S. ‘Tyrannic’ - ‘The Biggest Thing In All The World’
We can here but peep at Tyrannic’s labyrinth of Public Rooms. They are 103, not including the Kandahar Verandah Grill. First Class passengers are reminded that all meals, excluding teas, must be ordered three months in advance of sailing. The Maitre d’Hotel will signal conclusion of dinner. Persons without references cannot be considered for the Captain’s Table guest list.
An area equivalent to Hindustan is devoted to food and its preparation aboard Tyrannic. Forty tons of Stilton cheese are consumed on every crossing, as are 214 miles of sausage and melons sufficient to fill the Grand Canyon of Arizona. All excess livestock is thrown overboard on sight of landfall. Steerage is reminded that eating toffee in bed is forbidden.
Gentlemen are requested to refrain from riding ponies through the Steerage after 8:00 P.M. While the Captain emphasizes the rules of proper attire at all times, gentlemen may remove their spats in the Gymnasium. Golfers from the First Class have right-of-way through the Steerage. The Chariot Race in the Grand Ballroom is held on the eve of disembarkation. Off limits to Steerage.
Lifeboat drill is conducted on the first day out at 3:00 P.M. for First Class, and on the last day out at 3:00 A.M. for Second Class and Steerage. One circuit of the Promenade Deck is equivalent to walking from Aix to Paris and return. More ammunition is expended during the skeet shooting on a single voyage than was used in the Crimean War entire. There is a deck of cards in the Steerage Tuck Shop.
The Tyrannic is so safe that she carries no insurance. Among many advances in her design and construction is the pneumatic bulkhead that seals off Steerage from the rest of the ship in case of flooding. Her wireless equipment is powerful enough to reach Brisbane, Australia, from the vicinity of Greenland.
Total length of Tyrannic’s hot water piping in First Class alone is estimated to exceed the distance in nautical miles from Lisbon to Durban.
A Routine voyage uses up six thousand mops, four hundred acres of table linens, and a fifty-gallon drum of Mercurochrome. Kept in the stores are ten miles of shoelaces, one half-ton of flea powder, two hundred caskets, a like number of hummingbirds, and a spare funnel.
The ship’s newspaper, issued daily, enjoys a larger circulation than the Times of Bombay. More musicians are employed aboard Tyrannic than in the entire city of Vienna. The chandelier in the Grand Ballroom weighs more than the Eiffel Tower, and gives off more light than that structure’s host city of Paris.
Steerage passengers who board at Liverpool often fail to reach their quarters before Tyrannic has safely berthed at New York. They are advised to run.
Comparing the length of one object with the height of another object from an entirely different domain is simply an inapt analogy.
The "how well does it float" remark was just pure, unadulterated and gratuitous Internet snark.
This is FR, after all...
So many activities...seems like a lot of work.
jsanders2001 wrote: “That must be a special...you don’t work for them do you?”
That price was shown on their website. All the cruise lines, Royal included, are continuously running specials which usually don’t actually reduce prices. It was an advertised price for an inside cabin for four people. That would be cramped but still the price is well within middle class reach.
I don’t work for Royal but I have cruised on two of their ships. One was Oasis, a sister ship, almost identical to Harmony. I actually prefer smaller ships and other cruise lines.
nooo,
I am not Hillary and I would go to jail.
Two word come to mind: Rogue Wave
They plan on just throwing them some sandwiches.
Nope, $600 per person is easy to find. I usually get a 7-day Caribbean cruise in a balcony suite for $750-900 per son. Carnival is always the cheapest, often just under $400 per person for a 7-day itinerary, because they cram an extra 1000 people on the same size ship as the others, and charge less, so every family of five jumps on it... making the extra 1000 people just about all kids. Nooooo thank you! LOL
I like Princess, Norwegian, and Holland America especially... HAL is sort of the "old fart" line, which is fine for me... fewer people in line for the things that I want to do (jet skis, horseback riding, snorkeling with rays, rent a motorcycle and tool around the interior of some of the islands, etc... and the food is always amazing.
My usual search method starts at vacationstogo dot com, it has an easy sorting matrix. Then go to the webpages of the top few cruises that you've chosen, and see if you can beat the price there. I also often wait for the last 2 weeks before my departure date, and prices slip quickly. (The down side is that there is no chance to get upgraded to a better room, like you can if you book early and stay in contact with the cruise line.)
I'm sorry that so many on here seem to not enjoy cruises. I love them, and plan one every year... but life always gets in the way, so I actually SAIL about every other year or so (5 since 2006).
Most Europeans are familiar with the Eiffel Tower and it gives them a perspective on which to gauge. But okay, I get it, you were being snarky.
i take it all that crap inside is because it doesn't make many port calls...
Just about big enough to have a quarter mile two lane marked off.
I thought Nathan Detroit ran the “oldest established permanent floating crap game”?
“Just how well does the Eiffel Tower float, anyway? “
Very well in a sea of Mercury.
Thank you. I did not know that (and I should have known).
A lot nicer than the frigate I was on.
200,000 + tons of ship wrapped around a gambling casino.
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