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The titanic was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship. It's job was to take people across the ocean, from beginning to destination, at speeds a cruise ship could only dream of.
Max speed of the Titanic was 21 knots. Average cruise ship speed is 20 knots.
Very different technology in use though, modern ocean liners run at over 30 knots.
What modern ocean liners even exist? They just scrapped the SS United States because it spent 50 years in dock after jet planes replaced ocean liners.
Cunard still runs transatlantic liner service. The QM2 is built as a combination ocean liner/cruise ship and does serve the north atlantic route on a schedule.
Only remaining ocean liner is the QM2 with cruising speed of 26kt, still slower than the SS United States which did 30kt.
She's not quite scrapped yet. She got evicted from her pier last year, and bought by Okaloosa County, FL. They plan to sink her off the coast of Dustin to create the world's largest artificial reef sometime next year.
I would imagine the delay is due to prepping her to be towed from Philly to The Gulf of Mexico.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_United_States