Freedom of the Seas

Freedom of the Seas may already be de-throned, herself. I have a postcard in front of me depicting P & O's Adonia. The legend on the back of the card indicates her length as 856 meters. (!!!)

It further asserts that she displaces 77,000 tons and has a beam of 105 meters!

Of course it's a typo- I doubt that she's 2808 feet LOA with a beam of about 345 feet- but it's worth keeping around for a chuckle. If she displaced a little more, I'd think she could have been one of RMS Tyrannic's lifeboats. :p
 
LOL ships these days gets bigger and bigger, the problem is they don't look a bit like ocean liners anymore. The size is there, but not the design.
 
I agree completely Jeremy. Everyone has their favorite 'classic' liner, mine is epitomised by White Star's Olympic. A floating condominium complex just doesn't grab something at the visceral level that the old ones do.
 
Bryan - I had never heard of RMS Tyrannic until you mentioned it here. Is this "brochure" thing a comic book? Have you seen it? Looks interesting.
 
RMS Tyrannic- The Biggest Thing in all the World was a series of works done by an artistic humorist named Bruce McCall. He does a lot of funny, whimsical stuff, and did several other prints for the Tyrannic gag, as well. That appeared years ago in National Lampoon- and he's done a lot of work that has appeared (sometimes on the cover) of The New Yorker Magazine.

Here are some of them.
http://www.jamesgoodmangallery.com/mccall/pages/availabledisplay29.html
The middle print appeared in Nat Lamp captioned, "Mutton is taken on X Deck". In the 'brochure' in the magazine were admonishments like "Gentlemen are asked to refrain from riding ponies through steerage after 8:00". RMS Tyrannic's slogan was, 'The Right Crowd, and No Crowding". It was a hoot.

I think the Tyrannic thing is featured in one of McCalls books which I believe is called 'Zany Afternoons'. There is a current online exhibition here:
http://www.jamesgoodmangallery.com/mccall/pages/exhibframez.html


Among those, I particularly liked the 'King Kong casting call'.
http://www.jamesgoodmangallery.com/mccall/pages/exhibdisplay21.html
 
We always pine for the good old days but the ships are what they need to be to cater to the existing market. People want "Rooms With A View" and on a ship, that makes for a lot of outside cabins and balcony suites. They also want the theatres, the casino, assorted game rooms and internet cafes, swimming pools...in short, they want a resort that floats. That's why modern day passenger ships look they way they do.

[Moderator's Note: This message and the three immediately above it, originally a separate thread under the "Other Ships and Shipwrecks" topic, have been moved to this pre-existing thread about Freedom of the Seas. MAB]
 
I hear on the morning BBC news that the 'Freedom of the Seas' docks at Southampton this Am. We saw shots of the interior - so luxurious. Puts Titanic a bit in the shade for interior splendour - wash your mouth out Luck.

Apparently Southampton is the cruise capital of the world. Three Liners in this weekend, seven during the week. Glad we are good at something.
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...Southampton is the cruise capital of the world....Glad we are good at something.
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Ernie, Southampton has had plenty of time to practice, and made good use of that.
I recall Donald Hyslop's commentary in "Death of A Dream", where he noted that "Southampton has been a port of call for thousands of years".

If all goes well, I'll join some friends on an eastbound crossing of the Queen Mary 2, arriving in Southampton, next year.​
 

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