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passenger vessel
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watercraft intended to carry people onboard
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Within Vinony's link graph, passenger vessel is referenced by 1,752 other articles, and connects out to Atlantic Ocean, International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and merchant marine.
It is catalogued under topics including Passenger ships and Ship types.
Its subject is documented across 42 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- merchant vessel
- Image
- Steamer.jpg
- Has use
- marine navigation
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- Category:Passenger ships
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Encyclopedic overview
An ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth 2
A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight. The type does however include many classes of ships designed to transport substantial numbers of passengers as well as freight. Indeed, until recently virtually all ocean liners were able to transport mail, package freight and express, and other cargo in addition to passenger luggage, and were equipped with cargo holds and derricks, kingposts, or other cargo-handling gear for that purpose. Only in more recent ocean liners and in virtually all cruise ships has this cargo capacity been eliminated.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “passenger vessel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.