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The Freedom Ship was an absurd design


Photo source: Freedom Ship


Another interesting, if completely


bizarre, concept for a ship that never left the drawing board was the Freedom Ship. According to its design, the vessel would be a total of something like 0.85 miles long (1.37 km), with a total of something like 25


decks stacked up like some mockery of a multistorey parking lot.


The ship would also be around 750 feet (229m) wide and have a total floor area of somewhere in the region of 1.7 million square feet. Incredibly, this is still, sort of, a proposed ship that could one day be built for real.


Initially proposed in the early- 1990s, the proposed ship would continuously circumnavigate the


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planet, stopping regularly at various ports of call. It was envisioned more as a place for residents to live, work, or retire than as a cruise ship.


If it is ever constructed, the Freedom Ship would be about four times longer than the famous “Allure of Seas”.


Like the World City Phoenix, this ship would have been a kind of floating city that could support something like 70,000 people at any one time. She would rise about 350 feet (107


m) out of the water, and even came with her own airport on the top deck, schools, parks, hospitals, and, of course, a casino.


The vessel was proposed to be powered by solar and wave energy, and she could, apparently, stay at sea pretty much indefinitely.


Freedom Ship is a very ambitious design and has been estimated to cost $10 billion if anyone dared to build her for real.


Photo source: RMMV Oceanic would have been the Titanic’s big sister


AntonLogvynenko/ Wikimedia Commons


Conceived in the 1920s, the Oceanic was another aborted mega-ship. Partially finished by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line, she was never completed.


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