Question About Cruise Ships?

Question

What powers cruise ships. when i think of cruise ships i think about them being powered by coal like back in the titanic days lol!! somebody help!!!!

Answer 1

Most new (<5 yrs old) are diesel electric.  A bank of diesel generators provide electrical service throughout the ship and to azimuth propulsion motors.

Answer 2

Twin 300 hp Mercury Outboards

Answer 3

The use turbine diesel engines that provide electrical power for the pods that drive the props.

The props can rotate 360 degrees around. They do not have a drive shaft as you may think. Each prop is a giant electrical engine that gets power from the diesel engines.

This page tells you a little about them.

http://navy-matters.beedall.com/cvf6.htm

Answer 4

diesel!

Answer 5

motors

Answer 6

Huge diesel engines.  It depends on the make of the ship.  Some time there might be a steam power plant but not likely.

Answer 7

Usually Large ships are power in port by diesel engines in port, and the once out of port their main engines are switched over to a fuel called Bunker C that is a much cheaper, but less clean burning, by product from the process of making gasoline and diesel.

The generators however always run on diesel.

This information aplies primarily to the container/tanker ships that I used to sell fuel too, and I am just assuming that cruise ships would do the same.