MS Freedom of the Seas
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This article is about the ship. For other uses, see Freedom of the Seas (disambiguation).
MS Freedom of the Seas is a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International. She is the namesake of Royal Caribbean's Freedom class, and can accommodate 3,634 passengers and 1,300 crew [3] on fifteen passenger decks. The vessel also has 4 crew decks below the waterline. Freedom of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built (by gross tonnage) from 2006 until construction of her sister ship, Liberty of the Seas in 2007.
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Freedom of the Seas in Port Canaveral, Florida in 2016, after her 2015 refurbishment | |
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Bahamas | |
Name | Freedom of the Seas |
Owner | Royal Caribbean Group[1] |
Operator | Royal Caribbean International |
Port of registry | Nassau, Bahamas |
Route | San Juan, Puerto Rico & Caribbean |
Ordered | September 18, 2003[1] |
Builder | Aker Yards Turku Shipyard, Finland |
Cost | US$800 million |
Yard number | 52 |
Laid down | November 9, 2004 |
Launched | August 19, 2005[1] |
Christened | May 12, 2006 |
Completed | April 24, 2006[1] |
Maiden voyage | 4 June 2006 (Caribbean) |
In service | 2006–present |
Identification | |
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Freedom-class cruise ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 338.774 m (1,111.46 ft)[1] |
Beam | 38.60 m (126.64 ft) waterline 56.08 m (184 ft) extreme (bridge wings) |
Height | 63.70 m (209 ft) |
Draught | 9.026 m (29.61 ft)[1] |
Decks | 19 total decks, 15 passenger decks |
Installed power | 6 × Wärtsilä 12V46 (6 × 12,600 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 21.6 knots (40.0 km/h; 24.9 mph)[2] |
Capacity |
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Crew | 1,360 |
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