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Topic: New Cruise Ships due in 2013-14

Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 02-28-2012 01:56 PM

Was looking at the designs for the new NCL, Princess and TUI ships, and was interested to see how similar they look even though they are all on different platforms for different corporations. The Breakaway and Royal Princess look especially similar, more so since they have revised the Breakaway's bridgefront. But even the TUI has a similar "strong" bow, with less of the soaring faux "clipper" look of the 1970's cruise ships.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 02-28-2012 03:43 PM

I don't know which one to like. They are all so different

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 02-28-2012 03:56 PM

Do any of them share the same ship yards?

Anyone recall the tonnage and pax capacity of each?

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 02-28-2012 04:39 PM

Royal Princess
Fincantieri
141,000gt
3600 pax

Norwegian Breakaway
Meyer Werft
144,000gt
4000 pax

TUI Cruise Ship
STX Finland
97,000gt
2500 pax

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 02-28-2012 05:55 PM

And all the three are really uglies, no?

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jeffrossatsea
First Class Passenger
Member # 2962

posted 02-28-2012 06:11 PM

yes!...just another cheap "cookie cutter" design

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 02-28-2012 06:47 PM

Thanks Thad.

It is of course not unusual for ships of various time periods to look similar to each other.

I'm thinking SS QM, SS QE, SS France and SS United States etc.

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Fairsky
First Class Passenger
Member # 781

posted 02-28-2012 10:13 PM

The similarities between Royal Princess and Nor. Breakaway are very strong...particularly the bow, forward superstructure, and bridge.

More evidence that Royal Caribbean/Celebrity are the only ones building original concepts in the industry these days.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 02-29-2012 11:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:
Thanks Thad.
It is of course not unusual for ships of various time periods to look similar to each other.
I'm thinking SS QM, SS QE, SS France and SS United States etc.

True. The Harland and Wolff built ships of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were all very similar except in their overall dimensions. Even Queen Mary had a few similarities to the earlier Aquitania. The interior layout of many passenger ships remained very similar for well over 30-years with the ss France having a similar GA to a large liner built in the 1930s and Cunard's Saxonia Class looked like pre-war ships in some ways.

[ 02-29-2012: Message edited by: lasuvidaboy ]

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 02-29-2012 11:31 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Fairsky:
[....]
More evidence that Royal Caribbean/Celebrity are the only ones building original concepts in the industry these days.

The Voyager/Freedom and the Oasis class are indeed different but e.g. the Solstice class is very comparable to the designs mentioned above.

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 02-29-2012 01:24 PM

I don't think they are all different, they are all the same, ugly boxes that happen to float ...

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 02-29-2012 02:39 PM

Looking at just the bridgefront, I am amazed at how similar these two are..

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 02-29-2012 04:34 PM

The bridgefronts could be worse. Imagine if those forward facing bulkheads were verticle to maximize interior space!

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jeffrossatsea
First Class Passenger
Member # 2962

posted 02-29-2012 06:40 PM

DON'T SAY THAT!!...carnivore might be reading this and might just do that

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