Along similar lines, if Princess Diana was alive today, she’d probably be clawing at the lid of her coffin.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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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.
Yes you’re right, the titanic is an ocean liner. That’s why it lines the bottom of the ocean to this very day.
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.
What modern ocean liners even exist?
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.
That's because the Olympic class liners were built with a power plant optimised for fuel efficiency, not speed.
They had two reciprocating triple expansion engines and a low pressure turbine driven by the exhaust steam from the reciprocating engines' low pressure cylinders.
Fully turbine driven liners of the same era would easily clock service speeds well beyond 25 knots, at the expense of burning way more coal.
I too subscribe to Oceanliner Designs on YT.
what's that in parsecs?
One, eventually.
I was curious so I just typed it into Wolfram Alpha.
~90.5 million years for the Titanic's 21 knots.
If it started now and remained underwater, just continually circling in the ocean, then when it finished it would have gone 6.39 trillion leagues under the sea.
Whoosh...
The bottom image is of the Titanic, showing only open ocean because the Titanic is not floating on the surface.
Oh, I'm aware. I'm just annoyed they called it a cruise ship.
Technically they just compared it to a cruise ship
The ship visible in the photo is a cruise ship.
ROOL.
For a while that was visible on Google Maps!
Fun fact: my great grandfather died on the Titanic. Probably wasn't fun for him, tho'.