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On a Mississippi riverboat, the promenade deck is the second deck, or floor, up from the waterline, above the main deck, and below the texas deck. On modern cruise ships with superstructures as high and broad as the hull, the promenade deck is often largely enclosed, with railing-lined "cutouts" and wooden decking to recall the old days.
In sailing and boating, a vessel's freeboard is the distance from the waterline to the upper deck level, measured at the lowest point of sheer where water can enter the boat or ship. [1] In commercial vessels, the latter criterion measured relative to the ship's load line, regardless of deck arrangements, is the mandated and regulated meaning. [2]
On ships with more than one level, 'deck' refers to the level itself. The actual floor surface is called the sole; the term 'deck' refers to a structural member tying the ship's frames or ribs together over the keel. In modern ships, the interior decks are usually numbered from the primary deck, which is #1, downward and upward.
A Passenger Cruise Terminal (PCT) Steering Committee, established in 2009 by the then New South Wales Government Minister for Planning, Kristina Keneally, advocated for a series of future plans and estimates for cruise ship capacity, including modifications to the Overseas Passenger Terminal and the design of a new terminal west of the Sydney ...
Cruise Ship Tourism. Wallingford: CAB International. ISBN 978-1845930486. Garin, Kristoffer A. (2005). Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: the dreams, schemes, and showdowns that built America's cruise-ship empires. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0670034185. Klein, Ross A. (2002). Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise industry. Gabriola Island ...
MS Queen Victoria (QV) is a Vista-class cruise ship operated by the Cunard Line and is named after the former British monarch Queen Victoria. The vessel is of the same basic design as other Vista-class cruise ships, including Queen Elizabeth. At 90,049 gross tonnage (GT) she is the smallest of Cunard's ships in operation. [3]
The Norwegian Epic was sailing from Jamaica to the Bahamas on Thursday, Dec. 26, when the 51-year-old passenger went overboard around 3 p.m. local time, a cruise line spokesperson said in ...
The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal is a ship terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. [3] It was constructed and expanded in the 1920s and 1930s as a replacement for the Chelsea Piers.