Photos of the Bridge

Hi everyone! I just went on my 1st cruise last week --- it was AMAZING. Since I wasn't able to visit the Bridge (or the Pilot House!), I'm wondering if anyone can share with me how the Bridge looks like on a cruise ship.

Thanks!!!

This is on a RCCL Voyager class ship - they have a deck with a glass area that you can look down at the bridge.

I have some brigde pics of the Carnival Sensation. We sailed on her in 1999 when they actually allowed us to tour the bridge.

The pics are here: http://helenanddave.net/sensationship.htm

This is on a RCCL Voyager class ship - they have a deck with a glass area that you can look down at the bridge.

 

The bridge on lowly (17 yr.old) Ocean Village Two is a bit more mundane and down-to-earth...

Yes, they still use charts!

The token helm, rarely used these days..

Very cool photos. Thanks for sharing, I really like them. :)

The Voyager class doesn't even have a steering wheel! They use the joystick on the center console! Most kids nowadays could probably steer that huge ship.

But they still use charts too - they had them out on a plotting table.

Way back in 1990 we had a bridge tour of the Dawn Princess - I think it was about 32,000 tons, so a very small ship compared to today.

I like this picture - but we all wondered how that Italian sailor at the steering wheel could see over the steering console. Maybe the wood platform helped! Even my wife was six inches taller than he was!

Celebrity Mercury

Sun Princess - open air bridge wing

Click pictures for links

Celebrity Galaxy

Celebrity Constellation

Constellation

Constellation Sign - this sign has been on all the Celebrity ship bridges that we've seen (three I think)

Hi everyone! I just went on my 1st cruise last week --- it was AMAZING. Since I wasn't able to visit the Bridge (or the Pilot House!), I'm wondering if anyone can share with me how the Bridge looks like on a cruise ship.

 

Thanks!!!

We took a bridge tour on the new Ruby Princess in November. Attached is a link to some of the pictures.

http://travel.webshots.com/album/568707763TvkiJN

Sun Princess - open air bridge wing

 

so they can see what's going on Down There!

that's clever!

Love the glass panels in the floor...sorry deck

so they can see what's going on Down There!

that's clever!

They also had glass panels in the floor on the (enclosed) bridge wings on Celebrity Mercury (will check if it shows on any of my photos)

If you are interesting you can look our Russian river cargo-ship bridge.

http://www.infoflotforum.ru/index.php?showtopic=21560

This is Russian Cruise Portal (such us boards.cruisecritic.com but younger).

This thread is capitan's reportage about navigation 2008 at North-West region in Russia (St. Petrsburg, Volga river)

I understand that you don't understand Russian language but you can look photos.

:)

Have a good view.

The same thread as this from Russian portal: http://www.infoflotforum.ru/index.php?showtopic=21449

Capt. Johnny's bridge!

From the Starboard bridge wing...

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Love the glass panels in the floor...sorry deck

so they can see what's going on Down There!

that's clever!

These are great for when they go through the Panama Canal. They can actually see how close the ship is to the wall of the locks.

on the Travel Channel they did a feature showing how it's used in Alaska to avoid chunks of ice

Love the glass panels in the floor...sorry deck

so they can see what's going on Down There!

that's clever!

This is what standing on one is like (Dawn Princess)

View from bridge wing (no glass floor panels here)

Same view with QM2 next to us