Construction of the vessel lasted two and a half years. A couple of days later, Harmony of the Seas arrived in Southampton, England, to set off on its maiden voyage to Rotterdam.
"Harmony...", like other ships of the company (all of them have the prefix "... of the seas" in their names), will sail under the Bahamian flag and have a home port of Nassau. The ship will be based in Barcelona.
Many times larger than the Titanic
The dimensions of “Harmony...” are amazing: 362 meters in length (longer Eiffel Tower), 18 decks, displacement - over 200 thousand tons! Being one hundred meters longer than the infamous Titanic, it is almost five times larger in volume.
City by the sea
The ship can accommodate up to 9 thousand passengers and crew members, a real floating city! There is even a helipad.
Larger than any ship that has ever been to sea
The size of the ocean monster is amazing even when compared with the previous generation of marine record holders - Quantum class vessels of the same company.
Preparing for the big swim
A couple of days after leaving the shipyard in San Nazaire, the ship reached the resort of Southampton. After some adjustment work, the vessel was brought back to normal operation.
Safety
Taking into account more than a century of experience sea cruises, and especially the sad fate of the Costa Concordia ship in 2012, the liner was brought to a state of maximum alert for incidents. The crew is carefully selected, exercises are held regularly, the number of places in life-saving equipment exceed the number of people on board.
Crew
The ship's first crew will consist of 2,100 people from 77 different countries.
Passengers
“Harmony of the Seas” will accommodate up to 6,780 passengers. Despite its respectability, the ship is designed for passengers of different incomes; the owner company offers very affordable prices for cruises, and there are a number of promotional offers. More than 60% of ship guests are visiting Royal Caribbean International ships for the first time.
Entertainment for every taste
Like other cruise ships, Harmony of the Seas has on board all possible types of entertainment for tourists. The ship will have five-star restaurants, a casino, a theater, ice rink And so on. There will even be a chapel with a Catholic priest.
Floating park
But this was not enough: the ship was broken real park the size of a football field! In addition to 52 trees and 48 grape bushes, it will contain more than 10 thousand plants.
Price
The cost of building the ship exceeded one billion dollars, but, as the experience of the cruise business shows, this investment will pay off, and within a few years the cruise liner will begin to generate income.
Good luck!
Video review Harmony of the Seas:
After a trial four-day cruise, the ship will relocate to the Western Mediterranean and will sail to resorts in Spain, Italy and France on various routes. Let's wish “Harmony of the Seas” a fair wind!
Cruise ships are often called cities at sea, and this description is most accurate for them. To understand how huge such ships can be, a comparison can be made with the infamous Titanic. If it had been built in our time, it would not even be in the Top 50. In this list, I will tell you about the 10 largest cruise ships in the world, all of which were built relatively recently, after 2000. Many of them also have twin brothers, who are equally large in size.
Royal Carribean. Oasis of the Seas
This vessel weighs 225,282 tons, is 361.7 meters long and has an official capacity of 5,400 passengers in maximum luxury and comfort. Oasis of the Seas is one of the few ships that cannot sail through the Panama Canal. Not only is it too long for the canal, but it is also too tall and wide. On board you can feel like you are in a huge amusement park. Large-scale shows are held here, not inferior to Broadway, and sports fans can do anything, even rock climbing. The crew serving the ship and passengers numbers 2,400 people. 
Queen Mary II
This ship weighs 151,400 tons and is 345 meters long. The official capacity is 2640 passengers. To get an idea of how huge this ship is, you can put 80 large bumper to bumper tourist buses- this will be comparable in length to Queen Mary II. At each end of the ship you can place a football field, and there will still be room to install an entire Big Ben on the deck. At the time of construction in 2004, it was the largest ship in the world. 
Disney Dream
This ship weighs 130,000 tons and is 340 meters long. Disney Dream seats 2,500 people and is a miniature version of Disneyland at sea. There is a huge cinema and many other entertainment options, including a water park. 
Freedom of the Seas
The ship weighs 160,000 tons and is 339 meters long. The ship can accommodate 3,634 passengers. It is sometimes compared to a floating water park, there is also waterslides, and many pools, Jacuzzis, and a wave emulator. There is also a water park for children called H2O and even a skating rink for ice skating enthusiasts. 
Splendida
This cruise ship weighs 137,936 tons and reaches 338 meters in length. Its capacity is 3274 passengers. The volume of space on board is simply colossal - it is one and a half million square meters, which exceeds the total volume of space, for example, the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 
Norwegian Epic
This vessel weighs 155,873 tons and is 329 meters long. Capacity - 4100 passengers. This cruise ship was launched in 2010 and is so huge that 5 lifeboats had to be removed to enter New York Harbor. On board you will also find a lot of entertainment, restaurants, and attractions. There is even 24-hour pizza delivery to your room. We have already mentioned this ship, like many others, in our selection of the largest ship propellers in the world. 
Celebrity Eclipse
The weight of this vessel is 122,000 tons, and the length is 315 meters. Even if you lined up four Boeing 747s, they would still not exceed the length of this cruise ship. The ship has 19 decks, including a lawn deck where you can play croquet and bocce. 
Voyager of the seas
This vessel weighs 138 tons and is 311 meters long. It can accommodate 3114 passengers. This is one of the first super-giant cruise ships, it has everything you need for comfortable rest- own television studio, ice skating rink, mini golf course with nine holes and much more interesting things. 
Carnival Dream
The weight of this liner is 130,000 tons, and the length is 306 meters. Capacity - 3646 people. This ship is a real floating amusement park; there are even several cinemas with screens of different sizes. 
Princess Diamond
Rounding out the top ten largest cruise ships is a ship weighing 116,000 tons and 294 meters long, accommodating 2,670 people. Despite being in tenth place, it is several times larger in area than, for example, Buckingham Palace, or five times larger than the Taj Mahal. There are more than seven hundred cabins here high class with balconies. 
The largest and most famous for tragic events passenger ship in the world - this Titanic. Everyone knows the unfortunate story of this greatest achievement of the 20th century. The ship was launched in 1911. During its first voyage, it collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank. , weighing 163 thousand tons, took about one and a half thousand lives with it to the bottom. Only 700 people were saved; they were picked up by a passing ship.
After the Titanic incident, the level of safety on all liners increased. All engineers and designers involved in the construction of passenger ships began to attach paramount importance to the conditions for ensuring the safety of human lives. As you know, one of the reasons for the mass loss of life was the lack of a sufficient number of spare boats on the ship.
The best ships of the 21st century: top 5
The title of “The largest passenger ship in the world” passes from one ship to another every year - the rating is constantly changing. Ship models are constantly being improved, new requirements are being established at the local and international level, and high technologies are being created. In this regard, it is possible that in the near future new names of sea giants will be added to the list.
The tragic story of the Titanic has become so iconic that the image of this ship will now be referred to endlessly. The other day I noticed a whole series of posts on LiveJournal dedicated to the 101st anniversary of the disaster. However, I was much more interested in the post of one of my friends: Compare the Titanic with...
Since it is very voluminous, I decided to make a small “squeeze” out of it. Those who are especially interested can look at the original at the link (lots of pictures and books).
This is how you can roughly compare the legendary Titanic with a modern liner. What is this modern ship? Some call him the most big liner in the world. However, we know that the most big airliner in the world it is Oasis of the Seas and it is 361 meters long. What do we read about this giant? Somewhere 362 meters, somewhere 361, and somewhere 360 meters. Do you know how this is explained? Here's how: along with the twin ship Oasis of the Seas is the largest passenger ship in the world as of November 2010: the length of both cruise ships is about 360 m (depending on temperature), and Allure of the Seas 5 cm longer than her sister.
Well, the designers, well, they probably would have made a couple of meters! In general, we will assume that this ship is one of the largest in the world.
"Allure of the Seas" and "Titanic":
Here's another comparison: 
Commissioned at the end of 2010, it is weleven-deck vessel weighing 225,282 tons can accommodate 5,400 passengers, who will be accommodated in 2,700 cabins
« Allure of the Seas" is divided into seven thematic areas, which include: Central Park, Boardwalk, Royal Promenade, Pool and Sports Zone, Vitality Sea Spa and Fitness Center, Entertainment Place and Youth Zone.
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For those whose home is in no way connected with the raging sea, it is worth paying attention to designing a country house, your own. This will be a real house that will never sink to the bottom.
1. His Majesty's hospital ship Britannic
The ship "Britannic" was created by the same company as the well-known "Titanic" - Harland and Wolff (Eng. Harland and Wolff) by order of the White Star Line. The ship was built some time after the sinking of the “unsinkable” Titanic. To protect its reputation, the company made some technical improvements to the ship's design: it increased the number lifeboats on board, strengthened the hull from the side of the boiler, engine and other compartments, the most vulnerable in a collision with an iceberg.
When construction of the Britannic was completed, the ship was even larger in size than the Titanic. It could easily have become an excellent cruise ship if the First World War had not begun. World War. The English government confiscated the Britannic, turning it into His Majesty's hospital ship. The ship was sunk by enemy artillery fire a year after it first launched. There were just over one thousand passengers on board. Almost all of them were saved. In total, about 30 people died.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau discovered the sunken Britannic several decades after its sinking and was quite surprised that the ship's hull was perfectly preserved. Since the 1990s, researchers have made many expeditions to the Britannic sinking site. The latter was organized in 2012 with the aim of installing special equipment on the ship that can monitor the growth rate of bacteria.
2. British transatlantic passenger airliner"Lusitania"
The Lusitania passenger liner was considered the largest cruise ship in the world, however, for a short time. Its construction was completed in 1907.
Eight years later, the ship was sunk by the German submarine U-20, which caused a huge resonance in the world community. The Germans were accused of violating international law because they opened fire on a non-military vessel without warning. However, as it turned out later, Britain used the Lusitania to transport ammunition in the hope that Germany would not attack the passenger liner. This, in turn, was also a violation of international law.
The remains of the Lusitania rest at the bottom Atlantic Ocean 13 kilometers from the Irish town of Kinsale. The liner was poorly preserved, unlike the Titanic and Britannic, because it sank at a much greater depth.
3. Spanish galleon “Nuestra Señora de Atocha”
The Nuestra Señora de Atocha was a prize ship of the Spanish navy that sank with one of the greatest treasures in history. maritime history on board.
This happened in 1622. The galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha was heading from Havana to Spain. He was transporting quite a valuable cargo: a huge amount of gold, silver, jewelry, tobacco, copper and other things. On the way, the Nuestra Señora de Atocha encountered a severe storm. The ship's hull was significantly damaged, so it quickly sank with passengers and expensive cargo on board.
For many years, Spanish authorities tried to find the site of the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha galleon and return the lost valuables, but to no avail. The ship was discovered in 1985 by professional treasure hunter Mel Fisher. The most interesting thing is that the galleon's shell remains unfound to this day. As you know, it was in this part of the ship that several centuries ago the Spaniards transported the most valuable things.
4. Pirate ship "Ouidah"
The ship "Whydah Gally" belonged to the pirate Black Sam Bellamy. He was considered the most successful sea robber of all time: he sank and captured a huge number of ships with treasures worth more than $120 million (in modern money). However, Bellamy was never able to fully enjoy the loot. His ship "Ouida" sank in 1717 as a result of a strong storm, sending the captain, half of his crew and all the valuables on board to the bottom.
In 1977, researchers managed to find the wreck using an old map compiled by a man who explored it immediately after the wreck more than two hundred years ago. On the ship's bell they found the inscription "Ouidah, 1716", which did not give them the slightest doubt about who owned the ship.
5. Queen Anne's Revenge
Queen Anne's Revenge has gone down in history as one of the most sinister pirate ships. He owes this status to his captain - Blackbeard. The ship was captured by the famous pirate in 1717. Twelve months later it ran aground. Rumor has it that this was a deliberate move by his captain.
