{"id":5749,"date":"2017-04-22T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:41:01","slug":"repositioning-cruise-day-15-april-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=5749","title":{"rendered":"Repositioning Cruise Day 15 – April 22 – Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ship’s Position (Southampton Docks)<\/p>\n

50\u00b053\u203234\u2033 N 1\u00b023\u203255\u2033 W<\/p>\n

Total Distance Traveled: 5,022 Nautical Miles<\/p>\n

The ship docked in Southampton at 5:00am local time. All that is left to do is to disembark & take the bus to Heathrow Airport.<\/p>\n

Prior to leaving on this trip I learned one night on the news that 2017 is projected to be a record year for icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland. I didn’t think much of that other than perhaps I might get lucky & spot a few icebergs (from a very safe distance) on this repositioning cruise.<\/p>\n

Well, we did not encounter any icebergs (at least not that I know of!) but I was somewhat surprised to learn (after we had left Fort Lauderdale) that this year is also the 105th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (April 14\/15, 1912). Was I tempting fate by taking this trip across the ocean on this infamous anniversary? I tried to keep that thought out of my mind – at least until we reached Southampton!
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\nOn April 14 this year (the calendar day that the Titanic struck the iceberg) the Crown Princess was at sea and approaching the Azores Islands for arrival the next day – so, technically, we were not that far from the resting place of the Titanic<\/p>\n

Here are some interesting comparison statistics between the Crown Princess & the Titanic:<\/p>\n

Crown Princess
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Item<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nCrown Princess<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nTitanic<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Length<\/td>\n951 feet<\/td>\n882 feet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Width<\/td>\n118 feet<\/td>\n92 feet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tonnage<\/td>\n113,000<\/td>\n46,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Speed<\/td>\n21.5 knots<\/td>\n23 knots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Passengers*<\/td>\n4,281<\/td>\n3,542<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

* passengers and crew<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Titanic
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\nAlmost time to get off the ship. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with Catherine & starting the next phase of our adventure.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ship’s Position (Southampton Docks) 50\u00b053\u203234\u2033 N 1\u00b023\u203255\u2033 W Total Distance Traveled: 5,022 Nautical Miles The ship docked in Southampton at 5:00am local time. All that is left to do is to disembark & take the bus to Heathrow Airport. Prior to leaving on this trip I learned one night on the news that 2017 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-repositioning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1uJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}