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These days, cargo vessels are the largest ships around, and the king of these crafts is the oil tanker Jahre Viking, which logs in at 1,503 feet long and 226 feet wide. It boasts a gross tonnage of 565,000 tons! However, you mentioned the Titanic, so to compare apples to apples, the two largest passenger ships in the world are currently run by Royal Caribbean International Cruises. The Voyager of the Seas and the Explorer of the Seas are 1,020 feet long and 158 feet wide. Both have a gross tonnage of 140,000 tons and carry roughly 3,000 passengers
and 2,000 crew members. See if you can spot the ice rink, rock climbing wall, and in-line skating track on this handy diagram from a Popular Mechanics article. We here at Ask Yahoo! have personally witnessed one of these beauties, and they are indeed massive. By comparison, the Titanic was 883 feet long, 93 feet wide, and weighed 45,000 tons. It boasted a squash court, swimming pool, and a gymnasium with a mechanical horse. The Titanic could hold 3,500 passengers and crew members but carried life boats for just over 1,000. There were
approximately 2,200 unfortunate souls aboard when the "unsinkable" ship encountered the iceberg. As we all know, records are meant to be broken. How Stuff Works presents this intriguing article about a planned "floating city" that will be roughly the size of a mile-long stretch of 25-story-tall buildings. Passenger capacity? Fifty thousand.
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