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How fast is does a cruise ship normally travel at?


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How fast is does a cruise ship normally travel at?

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Most cruise ships will do 20 to 25 knots. A few will reach 30 but this is also weather dependent. I was on an old ship a couple of years back which was scheduled to do 18 knots from Corsica to Mallorca in the med but against a big wind and sea we only made good 13 knots and were hours late arriving.
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General answer: 24 knots.

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Typically the big ships travel between 15 and 20 knots. (a knot is about 1.15 miles) Remember they travel 24 hours a day so on a typical day they will travel over 400 miles. The distance between ports is usually less than that so they take a wide path to reach their destination. I was on a cruise a month ago and we got up to 23 knots to make up some time since we had to perform a rescue at sea.
20-30 knots which equals about 22-32 mph
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