Our World Tuesday ABC Wednesday, C for Cruise Ships

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Cruise ship

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Majesty of the Seas

All my life I have been interested in ships. May be it's because my father was a sailor,  who sailed all over the world especially in WWII. When my father came back home we always went to welcome him on his ship. He then showed us around. I once saw the engine-room, but was too young to be interested in engines. I liked his cabin and bathroom with a bath that contained salt water. When he left after a week or so we didn't go with him, because he took a cab to the harbour.
One of the things I'd like to do, is to make a voyage along the Norwegian coast. I shall have to go by cruise ship. A cruise ship is very different from an ocean liner, the latter is of a higher standard and built to protect passengers and crew against rough weather. But an ocean liner can be converted into a cruise liner with all kind of facilities and offering the same amenities as on the cruise ships.

Wikipedia says:"
A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are a part of the experience, as well as the different destinations along the way. Transportation is not the prime purpose, as cruise ships operate mostly on routes that return passengers to their originating port, so the ports of call are usually in a specified region of a continent."! 

Cruise ships in Tallinn Passenger Port of Tallinn, Estonia -

Some weeks ago a friend and I visited this magnificent ship, which doesn't sail anymore. It officiates now as hotel.

The fifth SS Rotterdam, known as "The Grande Dame", was launched by Queen Juliana in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and completed the following summer. The Rotterdam was the last great Dutch "ship of state", employing the finest artisans from the Netherlands in her construction and fitting out process Her career spanned forty-one years. She sailed from 1959 until her final retirement in September 2000

 

We had coffee on the Promenade Deck

There were beautiful decorations on the walls of the staircases

We could see a cabin, or room as they call it here

The swimming pool was not very deep, but the children on board loved to play in it.

This ship was built to sail the oceans in all kind of weather. It was more a cruise liner than a cruise ship, like the ones I show you here , the images of which I use by courtesy of Wikipedia.

The cabins have  balconies, which  an ocean liner or cruise liner doesn't have,  that would be too dangerous in rough weather.