Who is the Largest?

[guernseyguy]

you can't call the Color Fantasy a liner, she's a ferry.

 

Does she not provide a service plying between certain places? If that is not the definition of a 'line' - what is?

 

I'd take the OED's definition of 'liner' over Wikipedia anyday:

 

Line:

'A regular succession of buses, ships, aircraft etc plying between certain places: a company conducting a business providing this.

 

Liner:

'A ship belonging to a line of passenger ships'

 

Since Color Fantasy is bigger than all of the Blue Riband liners ex- the Normandie and Queen Mary - I fail to see why the 'Atlantic Ferry' is a 'liner', but the 'Baltic Ferry' is not......

 

Peter

[guernseyguy]

' An ocean liner is a large passenger ship, most typically a motorized vessel that undertakes longer voyages on the open sea primarily for the purpose of transporting people from one place to another. Very large liners are knowns as superliners. 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner

 

This article does not cite any references or sources.

 

Quite......

[travel-to-go]

Nah, the QM2 is a hybrid liner-cruise ship - the world's biggest liner is the the Color Fantasy running between Oslo and Keil (and just as pretty as her 'inferiors' - 'cruise' ships:rolleyes:):

 

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t7281.html

 

Looks like a shopping mall with rooms!

actually, some shopping malls do have hotels built in! So this is simply a shopping mall that floats! ...and goes somewhere!

 

Ahh The American dream, no doubt! Even if it is plying Norwegian waters!

 

Karie,

who doesn't DO malls (but thinks this ship is pretty, nonetheless)

[KenC]

Does she not provide a service plying between certain places? If that is not the definition of a 'line' - what is?

 

Since Color Fantasy is bigger than all of the Blue Riband liners ex- the Normandie and Queen Mary - I fail to see why the 'Atlantic Ferry' is a 'liner', but the 'Baltic Ferry' is not......

 

Peter

 

 

How come they don't call Baltic Ferries liners then??? ;)

 

Ken

[guernseyguy]

How come they don't call Baltic Ferries liners then???

 

Cunard call Queen Victoria a 'liner' - that still does not make her one.......:rolleyes:

 

The term 'liner' is used rather loosely - and its fun to watch the horror of the 'line voyages between two ports' crowd when you point out that today's liners are more commonly called 'ferries'.

 

The 'Atlantic Ferry' was conceived as an extension of the railway system (I. K. Brunel) - and how ever great their airs and graces, call them 'liners' if you will - but they did the job of a ferry - and its apogee was the weekly two-ship service. If that's not a 'ferry' - what is?;)

 

Peter

[Bramcruiser]

Karie - look what you have started. A bunch of grown men arguing about which is bigger?;) :eek:

 

Now they are discussing the proper terminology (liner vs cruise ship vs whatever):D

 

Whatever the size and whatever you call it its all about whether it gets the job done or not.:)

 

David

(double entendres intended)

[mufi]

John Maxtone Graham states that there are only two ocean liners in the world.

 

David.

[exlondoner]

Soon be only one then.:(

[pnhmrk]

How come they don't call Baltic Ferries liners then??? ;)

 

Marketing?

 

Whatever the size and whatever you call it its all about whether it gets the job done or not.:)

 

You mean that it's not the size of the boat but the motion of the ocean?:D