But the view from directly above gigantic cruise ships is even more startling ... After all, no other man-made object is quite like the modern-day cruise ship. What other wonder of engineering ...

If mega-ships can feel like cities at sea, small ships are perhaps more like quaint towns. It’s easier to find your way around, faces become familiar quickly and the server at the nearby eatery ...

As cruising picks up, one small Wisconsin port weighs the pros and cons of more ... city, which has an industrial port that moves 35 million short tons of cargo per year. An expedition ship like ...

The world's biggest cruise ships are more like floating cities – so when they dock in normal-sized ports they make a rather strange spectacle. These are our favourite big-ship-tiny-town moments.

But what happens when the vehicle you’re driving is the size of a small ... ships each day — it’s perhaps surprising that such an incident doesn’t happen more often. So what is it really ...

By Ceylan Yeğinsu Cruise ships have hidden features that many passengers, particularly first-timers, don’t know about. Some ships are as big as small cities ... iron bars like a traditional ...

For more than a century ... which means that the bubbles reduce the resistance between the ship and the sea around its hull. It’s a bit like gliding your hand through a gently bubbling hot ...