Freedom Class Cruise Ship
The Freedom class is a group of three cruise ships for Royal Caribbean International. The first ship of the class, Freedom of the Seas, was the largest passenger ship in the world, and the largest ever built in terms of passenger capacity and gross tonnage, when she was built in 2006. These two records were then shared by all three ships until the construction of the MS Oasis of the Seas was completed in November of 2009 and the MS Allure of the Seas.
Freedom of the Seas left Aker Finnyards shipyard in Turku, Finland on April 24, 2006 and started regular sailings out of Miami the next month. The second ship of the class, Liberty of the Seas sailed on her maiden voyage on May 19, 2007. The third ship of the class, Independence of the Seas, was delivered and started work out of Southampton in April 2008.
New features of the Freedom-class include the FlowRider surf park, cantilevered whirlpools, an ice-skating rink, a full-size boxing ring, and the H2O Zone waterpark.
On 3 March 2008 Aker and Royal Caribbean announced a memorandum of agreement for a fourth ship in the class, subject to board approval and finalization of terms and conditions.
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