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Have you ever wondered if modern cruise ships have anchors and if so, where are they stored,  and how big are they? Modern cruise ships have what’s known as a stockless or patent anchor.  This type of anchor is suitable for a wide range of different sea bed types, which cruise ships need as they […]

Have you ever wondered if there are jails on cruise ships? Cruise ships need to be equipped to cope with every eventuality that might come about while at sea.  Whether it be providing doctors and hospital space should anyone fall ill or even morgues if anyone dies onboard. So it’s no surprise with so many

Bearing in mind the size of some ships, especially modern-day cruise ships, which can have a front extending 10’s of meters in height, what you name the front of a ship can vary depending on the specific front part you are referring to. So let’s break it down and explain some of these front features’

There is no doubting cruise ships accumulate a lot of waste, but what happens to it?  Do they bring it all back to shore, or is some or all of the garbage dumped in the sea? We know more than our oceans are precious, and with more and more cruise ships on our seas and

Have you ever heard the mention of a “poop deck” and wondered what it meant and, curiously why is it called that? Most of us know what we associate the word poop with, and it’s not too pleasant. However, in the case of a ship, a poop deck has no connection to toilets or human

If you are thinking of going on a cruise, one of your safety concerns might be what happens in the event of an emergency and whether there are enough lifeboats for all passengers to disembark safely. You might even have seen the Titanic when many people died because there weren’t enough lifeboats and wondered if

The Titanic is often referred to as a cruise ship, but was it really one? According to most definitions, a cruise ship is designed to only carry passengers on voyages that generally run closer to coastlines and feature multiple ports of call. This is opposed to an ocean liner designed to cross oceans and generally

Have you ever wondered how many cruise ships there are? Or how many of each cruise line? While the number of cruise ships in the world varies year to year as old ships are scrapped and new ones are launched, we have worked out the current total with a full breakdown for each cruise line

Have you ever wondered how many doors there are on a cruise ship? It’s one of those questions that occasionally goes viral on social or gets asked in a quiz: are there more doors in the world, wheels or windows?  That type of thing. Well, I’ve heard the question asked more than a couple of