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Freedom of the Seas
Posted by Raven on May 12th, 2006
It’s UGLY as sin and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like to be on IT.
That aside, this is the world’s largest ship and therefore it rates a mention here.
BAYONNE, New Jersey (AP) — Wielding scissors, a woman who helped raise more than 400 foster children over 27 years snipped a ribbon to christen the world’s largest cruise ship Friday while it docked near the Statue of Liberty.
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The ship is so immense that even its captain hadn’t finished exploring it earlier this week.“I’m still discovering things,” Bill Wright said Thursday as he walked around the bridge of the newly built ship while it was docked in Bayonne.
Freedom of the Seas, which arrived this week in New York Harbor from Southampton, Britain, is 237 feet tall and 1,112 feet long with 15 passenger decks.
Standing upright on its bow, it would be taller than the Eiffel Tower. The ship comes in at 160,000 gross registered tons, a standard measurement of carrying capacity that is about 100 cubic feet for each ton.
Built by Norwegian shipbuilder Aker Yards ASA, the ship cost $800 million and can carry more than 4,000 passengers. The world’s previous largest ship, the Queen Mary 2, can carry about 3,000 people and is 151,400 gross registered tons. The Titanic’s gross registered tonnage was 46,329.
