Career  
Name: Freedom of the Seas
Namesake: Royal Caribbean's Freedom Class of cruise ships
Owner: Royal Caribbean International
Operator: Royal Caribbean International
Port of Registry:  Bahamas
Ordered: September 2003
Builder: Aker Yards, Turku, Finland
Cost: US $~800,000,000 (~750m Euro or GB£520m)
Laid down: November 9, 2004
Christened: May 12, 2006 at Bayonne, NJ
on New York Harbor by Katherine Louise Calder[1]
Maiden voyage: 4 June 2006 (Caribbean)[1]
In service: 4 June 2006
Status: In service
Notes: CDC sanitation score: 100% (2008-08-24)[2]
General characteristics
Class and type: Freedom-class cruise ship
Tonnage: 154,407 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 1,111.9 ft (338.91 m)
Beam: 126.64 ft (38.60 m) waterline 184 ft (56.08 m) extreme (bridge wings) ,
Height: 209 ft (63.7 m or 15 decks high)
Draught: 28 ft (8.53 m)
Decks: 18 total decks, 15 passenger decks
Installed power: Six Wärtsilä 46 V12 diesels each rated at 12.6 MW (~17,000hp) driving electric generators at 514 rpm.
Propulsion: Three ABB Azipod podded electric propulsion units, two of them azimuthing, one fixed. 4 additional bow thrusters.
Speed: 21.6-knot (40 km/h; 25 mph)
Capacity: 4,370 passengers
Crew: 1,360 crew

 

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  • The ship has 30 lifeboats.

     

     

  • It is about 229 ft (69.80 m) longer, about 108,000 GT larger, and can accommodate 2,147 more passengers than RMS Titanic.

     

     

     

     

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  • It has 75,000 lightbulbs and 4,700 works of art, and uses 35,000 kg of ice daily.
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  • It has 1.5 million tiles in the bathrooms, shower rooms, etc.
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  • The largest suite, the Presidential Suite, is 113 square meters, accommodates 14 people and has ten flat panel TVs, a private whirlpool, a wet bar, and a Yamaha GC1 baby-grand piano.
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  • Rooms for the maiden voyage were priced from $1,900 to $22,000 for the week.
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  • It consumes approximately 28,000 pounds (12,800 kg) of fuel per hour[9], enough to refill a 13 gallon tank in a car at one tank a week for over six years.

     

     It is one of the few ships with 4 bow thrusters on each side with 8 bow thrusters in total.

     

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