cruise Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/cruise/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:14:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How do Cruise Ships Handle Outboard Shifting Mass? https://mechtraveller.com/2018/11/how-do-cruise-ships-handle-outboard-shifting-mass/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/11/how-do-cruise-ships-handle-outboard-shifting-mass/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:36:15 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3926 Any nautical engineers or ship designers out there, who know the answer? We’ve all been enjoying the sight of Celebrity Edge being delivered and now embarking on her first cruises. Her stand-out (literally) feature is the ‘Magic Carpet’ – “the world’s first cantilevered, floating platform” that rises up the starboard side of the ship from […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2018/11/how-do-cruise-ships-handle-outboard-shifting-mass/feed/ 2 Expedition Cruise Finds 116 Year Old Whaling Ship Wreck https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:31:23 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3663 Canadian expedition cruise company, One Ocean Expeditions (OOE) in collaboration with The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has helped to find the Nova Zembla, a Scottish whaling ship that was wrecked near Buchan Gulf off the coast of Baffin Island in 1902. Dr. Matthew Ayre and Dr. Michael Moloney, from the Arctic Institute of North […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/expedition-cruise-finds-116-year-old-whaling-ship-wreck/feed/ 0 World’s Largest Sailing Ship to Launch in 2017 https://mechtraveller.com/2016/03/worlds-largest-sailing-ship-launch-2017/ https://mechtraveller.com/2016/03/worlds-largest-sailing-ship-launch-2017/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:11:45 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1379 The classic sail ship cruise line, Star Clippers, has a new square-rigger currently under construction at Brodosplit shipyard in Split, Croatia. Steel cutting for ‘Hull 483’ – whose name, announced this week, is to be: Flying Clipper – commenced in last September. When she is completed in late 2017 she will be a 162m long/18.5m […]

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