Some ships do have spare cabins for passengers but it is very rare for a commercial vessel to carry passengers.
This is because once the amount of passengers exceeds 12 then a doctor HAS to be onboard, additionally SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) dictates there has to be enough life saving equipment onboard the ship for every person carries, be it life jackets or survival suits and the space inside the lifeboat and life rafts has to be assessed.
Depends on the ship, on the Carnival cruise ship Conquest can fit 3400 passengers Cruise Ship : SuperSeaCat 4 Traveling from Helsinki to Tallinn, the SuperSeaCat 4 which was built in 2000 weighing 4500 gross tons, can carry 700 passengers with 25 crews to attend to the ship and the passengers. Cruise Ship : GTS Finnjet Tours from Helsinki, Tallinn and Rostock, the 32940 gross ton 1977 built ship can carry 1781 passengers with 172 crew to assist them and do cruise ship jobs. Cruise Ship : Silja Festival Tours places like Turku, Eland Islands and Stockholm, the 34414 gross ton ship built in 1986 can carry 1916 passengers with 180 crews. Cruise Ship : Silja Serenade Built in 1990, the ship travels Helsinki, Eland Islands and Stockholm. The ship can carry 2852 passengers with 264 cruise staff and weighs 58376 gross tons. Cruise Ship : Silja Sympony Built in 1991, the 58377 gross ton ship can carry 2952 passengers with 264 crews to the same destinations as the Silja Serenade. Cruise Ship : Silja Europa Can carry 3123 passengers with 300 staffs to attend to the ship and the passenger. Built in 1993 and weighs 59914 gross tons, the Silja Europa carries passengers in destinations like Turku, Eland Islands and Stockholm.it depends on the ship, all most all major cruise ships are on wikipedia and it should say the occupancy there.The largest cruise ship (Oasis of the Sea) can accommodate about 6,000 passengers plus thousands of crew members.
It varies depending on the size of the cruise ship, but on average, a cruise ship can typically carry anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 passengers. Some of the larger cruise ships can accommodate up to 6,000 passengers or more.
Ferry ( Boat or ship used to carry passengers across bodies of water )
There are some cruise ships that carry only a few hundred passengers (some even less) up to the Oasis and Allure of the Seas, both of which can carry over 6000 passengers.
A bigger ship means that it can carry lots more passengers who pay for their tickets, and make the ship owners rich.
1,000,000 passengers any cruise ship
Number of passengers on each ship: 7000/8 = 875 passengers
The ship could carry a total of 3,547 passengers and crew members
It is based on the number of passengers and crew that the ship can carry. There are more boats than needed in case some of the boats would be damaged.
The passengers who left the sinking ship first were the women and their children
there are 6,000 passengers in this beautiful ship
A cruise ship passenger.