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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 |
Facts from www.wikipeidia.com
It is one of the few ships with 4 bow thrusters on each side with 8 bow thrusters in total.
Facts from www.wikipedia.com