2007-03-01 13:23:23 · 8 answers · asked by Lee B. N 1 in Travel ➔ Cruise Travel
M/S Freedom of the Seas is a Royal Caribbean International cruise ship and the name ship of her class. The world's largest passenger vessel, she can accommodate over 4,300 passengers on her fifteen passenger decks, served by over 1300 crew. She and her sisters likely will keep the title of the largest passenger ships ever built until construction of her owner's Genesis class ships.
The Freedom of the Seas was built at the Aker Finnyards drydock in Turku, Finland which also is building the other ships of the Freedom Class. Upon her completion she became the largest passenger ship ever built, taking that honor from Cunard's Queen Mary 2.
Freedom is 2.4 meters narrower than QM2 at the waterline, 6 meters shorter, and has 1.5 meters less draft. Freedom however is the larger ship in gross tonnage. While her tonnage rating was estimated to range from 154,000 gt[1] to 160,000 gt,[2] her official rating by Det Norske Veritas, a Norwegian marine classification society, is 154,407 gt, [3] compared with QM2's 148,528 gt. Freedom has the highest gross tonnage of any passenger ship yet built.
She has 30 lifeboats.
She is about 229 ft. longer, about 108,000 gross tons larger, and can accommodate 2,147 more passengers than RMS Titanic.
Her operating costs are $1 million per day.
She has 750,000 lightbulbs and 4,700 works of art, and uses 35,000 kg of ice daily.
The largest suite is 113 square meters, sleeps 14 people and has five flat panel TVs, a private whirlpool, and a wet bar.
Rooms for the maiden voyage were priced from $1,900 to $22,000 for the week. As routine service continues, starting room rates are expected to descend as low as $700 for cruises scheduled in the autumn of 2007.
The ship consumes approximately 28,000 gallons of fuel per hour.
2007-03-01 16:41:02 · answer #1 · answered by ann.inspain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trick question?
RCL - Freedom is the largest "Cruise Ship" in service.
QM2 - is the largest "Cruise Liner" in service.
The diffrence is the use of glass vs. a sea break wall.
The QM2 is a trans-Atlantic liner, capible of induring the worst weather at sea.
The Freedom is a porting ship. In the event of bad storms the Freedom takes to the nearest port to wait out the weather.
2007-03-05 17:46:21 · answer #2 · answered by Bill in Kansas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure Genesis counts, as it's under construction and hasn't even been floated out of the dock.
Royal Caribbean's Freedom class (Freedom of The Seas, soon to be joined by Liberty of The Seas, and next year by Independence of The Ses) are the largest ships by tonnage.
2007-03-01 22:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by mababischkin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never a DATE ! Editor pls put DATE or reject ! The largest ship { old entry }
is the pinta / a forerunner of the modern cruise-ship / No data of interest seems
to be available, since . / None reliable with a date attached . Jan 2014 -----note
Jimmy Watson
2014-01-21 10:23:44 · answer #4 · answered by James 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas.
2007-03-01 22:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by Cheryl M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Queen Elizabeth II, it's a largest passenger cruise ship in the world.
2007-03-01 23:41:29 · answer #6 · answered by murcialago007 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
there is one in the works ordered by Royal Caribbean named Project Genesis. check the link...
2007-03-01 21:32:59 · answer #7 · answered by Carlo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
royal Caribbean freedom of the seas
2007-03-05 11:27:22 · answer #8 · answered by eviot44 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋