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Cruise ships are an environmental disaster. There needs to be a section on this.
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== Origins ==
Ugly great things, and with a propensity to flood nice places with hundreds of morons all at once, too :-)


There's a mixup in [[Cruise ship#Origins|Origins]] about P&O being first...
[[P&O Cruises|P&O]] first introduced passenger-cruising services in 1844, advertising sea tours to destinations such as [[Gibraltar]], Malta and Athens, sailing from [[Southampton]].
*current link is to P&O Cruises, which didn't exist till about 1977, when restructuring of P&O into several entities was done, instead to parent P&O (company)
*P&O Cruises ''is'' one of successors, and inheritor of cruising tradition of the parent company that did that cruise in 19. century, but it is not the same one
*it seems original P&O was called Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company in 1844; I'd like to see when P&O actually got in use (but that is for the P&O (company) article)


Current contents of this article reads as if a company not existing before around 1977 made business in 1844, which would make smart 12 years olds laugh maddly, and dismiss Wikipedia as serious source of info when laughing fit settles.
I disagree. They're not ugly. ;-)


I propose change of link from P&O (which currently means P&O Cruises) to P&O (company) at first, e.g.
[[P&O (company)|P&O]] first introduced passenger-cruising services in 1844, advertising sea tours to destinations such as [[Gibraltar]], Malta and Athens, sailing from [[Southampton]]


Later a section (or permanent link) to the part of that article with historically correct name could be created in that article and link changed to show there. I'll probably do the first change in a week or two, if nobody disagrees here. --[[User:Marjan Tomki SI|Marjan Tomki SI]] ([[User talk:Marjan Tomki SI|talk]]) 08:48, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Environmental Disaster? I bet you love your car too.

== Duration ==

Are there any good statistics on how long cruises typically last? Does it vary by destination? -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] ([[User talk:Beland|talk]]) 03:29, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

:Length of cruise varies a lot based on a number of factors. Most cruises I say last in between three to seven days, but I don't know anywhere that would provide hard statistics on that. [[User:SpiritedMichelle|SpiritedMichelle]] ([[User talk:SpiritedMichelle|talk]]) 19:27, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

== Cruise ship ==

Discuss about cruise ship [[Special:Contributions/124.105.199.163|124.105.199.163]] ([[User talk:124.105.199.163|talk]]) 05:29, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

== Oldest cruise line ==

Cunard Line was started in 1840, four years before P&O Cruises. [[Special:Contributions/2600:1700:E381:6AA0:B874:8704:FDEE:900C|2600:1700:E381:6AA0:B874:8704:FDEE:900C]] ([[User talk:2600:1700:E381:6AA0:B874:8704:FDEE:900C|talk]]) 13:38, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

== 40% of energy for hotel load? ==

I don't believe this: "Cruise ships may use 60 percent of the fuel energy for propulsion, and 40 percent for hotel functions". Here is a source that says 20%, which I find more believable: [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890423004673] [[User:GA-RT-22|GA-RT-22]] ([[User talk:GA-RT-22|talk]]) 15:53, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 05:19, 18 October 2024


Origins

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There's a mixup in Origins about P&O being first...

P&O first introduced passenger-cruising services in 1844, advertising sea tours to destinations such as Gibraltar, Malta and Athens, sailing from Southampton.
  • current link is to P&O Cruises, which didn't exist till about 1977, when restructuring of P&O into several entities was done, instead to parent P&O (company)
  • P&O Cruises is one of successors, and inheritor of cruising tradition of the parent company that did that cruise in 19. century, but it is not the same one
  • it seems original P&O was called Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company in 1844; I'd like to see when P&O actually got in use (but that is for the P&O (company) article)

Current contents of this article reads as if a company not existing before around 1977 made business in 1844, which would make smart 12 years olds laugh maddly, and dismiss Wikipedia as serious source of info when laughing fit settles.

I propose change of link from P&O (which currently means P&O Cruises) to P&O (company) at first, e.g.

P&O first introduced passenger-cruising services in 1844, advertising sea tours to destinations such as Gibraltar, Malta and Athens, sailing from Southampton

Later a section (or permanent link) to the part of that article with historically correct name could be created in that article and link changed to show there. I'll probably do the first change in a week or two, if nobody disagrees here. --Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 08:48, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Duration

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Are there any good statistics on how long cruises typically last? Does it vary by destination? -- Beland (talk) 03:29, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Length of cruise varies a lot based on a number of factors. Most cruises I say last in between three to seven days, but I don't know anywhere that would provide hard statistics on that. SpiritedMichelle (talk) 19:27, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cruise ship

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Discuss about cruise ship 124.105.199.163 (talk) 05:29, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oldest cruise line

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Cunard Line was started in 1840, four years before P&O Cruises. 2600:1700:E381:6AA0:B874:8704:FDEE:900C (talk) 13:38, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

40% of energy for hotel load?

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I don't believe this: "Cruise ships may use 60 percent of the fuel energy for propulsion, and 40 percent for hotel functions". Here is a source that says 20%, which I find more believable: [1] GA-RT-22 (talk) 15:53, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]