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How are modern day cruise ships compared to the Titanic?

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The idea of the Titanic was first conceived in Lord and Lady Pirrie's Downshire home in London, six years before its fateful maiden voyage. Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie wanted to build the largest luxury ship ever. How large was this ship? read more

Healthyfitness, the Oasis of the Seas is a very large ship compared to the Titanic. I was on this ship in the summer of 2012. It is large but before the Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas were launched most modern day cruise ships were not that much larger than the Titanic. They were much wider before they became longer than the Titanic. read more

Some cruise ships are 150,000 and some even 225,000 tons, The Titanic, though immense for its day was just a dinky 47,000 tons, one fifth the displacement. Correspondingly cruise ships have many more passenger capacity, as many as 5400–6200 with crew of about 2200. read more

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