RMS Queen Elizabeth 2

Luxury cruise ships have a fascinating and colorful history. The industry of “pleasure cruises” began in the year 1867, as people discovered how enjoyable leisurely, elegant ocean travel could be. As the years passed, cruise ships became more and more receptive to the needs of their usually wealthy passengers, and became floating palaces, lavishly decorated and serving only the finest food and drink. The stately cruise ships portrayed in movies such as the Titantic are not figments of the imagination

City of Liverpool Often described as a city with the “most splendid setting of any English city” and the home of Beatle’s music. Liverpool’s history stretches back over 800 years, covering everything from maritime trading to Beatlemania. The city’s history as one of the world’s great ports earned its designated UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2004. There’s no better way to learn about this story of Liverpool than a visit to the city’s national museums; World Museum Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery

CRUISE SHIP A cruise ship or cruise liner is a (usually very large) passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship 's amenities are part of the experience, as well as the different destinations along the way. Transportation is not the prime purpose, as cruise ships operate mostly on routes that return passengers to their originating port, so the ports of call are usually in a specified region of a continent. In contrast, dedicated transport oriented ocean liners

in 1938, Allan Turing returned back to Cambridge where he held a part-time position with the Government Code and Cipher School, a British code-breaking organization (2). This put a halt on his endeavors that he began pursuing at Cambridge University. Organized in Bletchley Park (a Victorian country mansion near Oxford), the GCCS set out recruiting high-ranking mathematicians and intellectuals to participate in the

the potential for big ships. It would take eight years, but in 1988 Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines responded by introducing the 73,192 gross ton mv Sovereign of the Seas, with a capacity of 2,282, the first new build of this size since the rms Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1968. The industry however was struggling to propel its growth and overcome self-inflicted problems including overcapacity. In 1980, there were only about thirty cruise lines and seventy-five ships with just around 40,000 berths worldwide

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