Tiny Titanic

Next week we head off on our annual vacation, this time to Europe, which will include a seven day cruise on the Navigator OfThe Seas around the Eastern Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, and Turkey) as well as extended land tours in Rome, Paris, and London before heading home. This is not our first cruise with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines but it is a new ship for both of us.
I have never had a fear of ships having also travelled on P&O Lines SS Oriana and the SS Canberra in the 1960’s which are much smaller than today’s monster passenger ships.

In thinking about how ships have grown exponentially, I was curious as to how the largest of today’s Cruise ships Allure of the Seas would compare to the largest and arguably the most famous cruise ship in the 20^th Century, the RMS Titanic. 

The picture below shows how tiny the RMS Titanic looks when compared to the Allure of the Seas and since we are not going to run into any icebergs in August in the Eastern Mediterranean, I am confident we have little to worry about.