Question about gas mileage on a cruise ship?

Question:
i just finished my vacation on the the Crown Princess ship and i was wondering how much gas is required to move the ship one mile or (knot).

Answers:

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I just finished a job as a officer onboard a container ship and will give you what we burn in fuel. Our avg. day was about 500 miles, we burned about 320 tons of fuel a day.

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And after doing all of that secret nautical math it works out to about 255 gallons per mile.

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i do know know about that particular ship, but some cruise ships burn about 1 gallon of gas to move less than a foot

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My cruise ship to Cozumel, according to the Captain's announcement, burned 1735 gallons of diesel fuel per hour.

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Mere Mortals answer ties in with my research on merchant and warships, which is about 75 to 150 gallons a mile..

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now, using round numbers, a cruise ship is about 800 feet...so 5 to 6 ship lengths is a mile; so 25 to 30 gallons to move the ship one boat length..which is actually pretty effecient, considering the number of people and the 60-100,000 tons being moved....

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If it had twin Merc 50 hp outboards it used about 1 pint to the mile.

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