The writer is a moron...
The RMS Titanic was not a “cruise liner”.
It was a passenger ship.
“It was a passenger ship.”
Good point, but to be more precise - and OCEAN LINER, specifically built to efficiently and quickly move large numbers of people long distances. Nothing like the super top-heavy party boats that dominate today.
Exactly….that grates on me too.
And contributed to the confusion from that ridiculous first line.
Full of very wealthy people. Why folks here at FR criticize those that took this sad voyage...is beyond me.
Good point. I was 3rd mate on a passenger ship once. I tell people that was the day when people went on a ship to go somewhere. It was also a cargo ship.
The RMS Titanic was not a "cruise liner".
It was a passenger ship.
Correct! The Titanic was an ocean liner which was the quickest way to cross the Atlantic ocean year round. That's what people used to cross oceans year round in all weather before jet airliners like the 707 made transatlantic travel cheaper and more than an order of magnitude faster in the 1950's and 60's. That's why the management of White Star was interested in how fast the Titanic could reach New York.
People on Cruise liners don't care how fast their ship travels. They are on vacation and want to arrive at a new port every morning. Ocean liners are built to take heavy waves that occur during the Winter in the north Atlantic. There's only one true ocean liner operating in the world today, and that's the Queen Mary 2. Yes cruise ships do cross oceans too, but they do this to reposition to different markets between seasons. In the Spring many cruise liners move between the Caribbean and the Mediterranean and offer discounted tickets to people willing to take a slow ship across the ocean. What cruise liners making repositioning cruises don't do is to travel in heavy seas.