The RMS Titanic is of course one of the most famous ships ever built, for all the wrong reasons.
It is a well-known fact that she was the biggest ship of the time (1912). However not everybody realises that she would be considered small when compared to many of today’s cruise ships.
For the sake of this comparison I am going to regard both the RMS Titanic and Titanic II as being the same size. In reality Titanic II is fractionally bigger in terms of gross tonnage, but it’s not very significant for this comparison.
Today’s biggest ships are the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines ‘Oasis’ class ships. The first Oasis class ship, ‘Oasis of the Seas’ entered service in 2009.
There will be a total of six, virtually identical ‘Oasis class ships, by 2023.
Size Comparison
Some ships are longer, some taller, some wider – all which makes any size comparison confusing. Therefore, the standard way of comparing a ships size is gross tonnage (gt). This is not a measurement of weight: it is a measurement of internal volume (internal space) inside the ship.
Oasis beats the Titanic/Titanic II in every dimension:
the Titanic II will be 883 ft in length, width 105 ft and 175 ft tall. She had nine decks, and will be around 56,000 gt. She will carry around 3,457 passengers and crew.
In contrast, Royal Caribbean’s ‘Symphony of the Seas’ (Oasis’s sister), is 1,188 ft in length, 155.7 ft in width and 238 ft tall. She has sixteen decks and is around 230,000 gt, which is four times bigger than Titanic II. Oasis can carry a maximum of around 8,500 passengers and crew.
Interestingly Oasis is four time bigger than Titanic II, but carries less than 2.5 times the number of passengers. This makes Oasis more spacious.
Ship Rendering
The statistics are interesting, but size comparison images are more effective in demonstrating the vast difference in scale, of the two ships.
Below: is another renderings of Oasis and the original RMS Titanic . The difference is breath-taking.
Another interesting question, is: “Which ship is the most attractive”?
Below: Is a another nice rendering the ‘Queen Mary 2‘(2004) a modern Ocean Liner and the RMS Titanic.
At at 150, 000 gross tonne the Queen Mary 2 dwarfs the original RMS Titanic, at around 46,000 gt.
Below: is one more comparison, for you: the original RMS Titanic and a more modern legend, Cunard’s ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’.
(Click bottom right to watch larger version on YouTube)
Malcolm
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