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Thad
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posted 02-28-2012 01:56 PM      Profile for Thad   Email Thad   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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
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posted 02-28-2012 03:43 PM      Profile for lasuvidaboy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't know which one to like. They are all so different
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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 02-28-2012 03:56 PM      Profile for Malcolm @ cruisepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Do any of them share the same ship yards?

Anyone recall the tonnage and pax capacity of each?

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Thad
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posted 02-28-2012 04:39 PM      Profile for Thad   Email Thad   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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
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posted 02-28-2012 05:55 PM      Profile for Danpc5   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And all the three are really uglies, no?
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jeffrossatsea
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posted 02-28-2012 06:11 PM      Profile for jeffrossatsea   Email jeffrossatsea   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
yes!...just another cheap "cookie cutter" design
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Malcolm @ cruisepage
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posted 02-28-2012 06:47 PM      Profile for Malcolm @ cruisepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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
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posted 02-28-2012 10:13 PM      Profile for Fairsky   Email Fairsky   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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
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posted 02-29-2012 11:08 AM      Profile for lasuvidaboy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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.

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Ernst
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posted 02-29-2012 11:31 AM      Profile for Ernst   Author's Homepage   Email Ernst   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Fairsky:
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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
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posted 02-29-2012 01:24 PM      Profile for Cunardcoll   Author's Homepage   Email Cunardcoll   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't think they are all different, they are all the same, ugly boxes that happen to float ...
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Thad
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posted 02-29-2012 02:39 PM      Profile for Thad   Email Thad   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Looking at just the bridgefront, I am amazed at how similar these two are..


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lasuvidaboy
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posted 02-29-2012 04:34 PM      Profile for lasuvidaboy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The bridgefronts could be worse. Imagine if those forward facing bulkheads were verticle to maximize interior space!
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posted 02-29-2012 06:40 PM      Profile for jeffrossatsea   Email jeffrossatsea   Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
DON'T SAY THAT!!...carnivore might be reading this and might just do that
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