Den flytende byen Freedom Ship

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Noen som vet om planene fortsatt lever? Har vert inne på hjemmesiden, men siste nyheter er fra februar 2005. Noen som vet om det bygges eller om prosjektet er lagt døtt?

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Freedom Ship

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Logo of Freedom Ship InternationalFreedom Ship was a concept for a floating city proposed by Norman Nixon of Freedom Ship International.

 

According to the company's website,

 

With a design length of 4,500 feet (1400 m), a width of 750 feet (230 m), and a height of 350 feet (110 m), Freedom Ship would be more than 4 times longer than the Queen Mary. The design concepts include a mobile modern city featuring luxurious living, an extensive duty-free international shopping mall, and a full 1.7 million square foot (160,000 m²) floor set aside for various companies to showcase their products. Freedom Ship would not be a cruise ship, it is proposed to be a unique place to live, work, retire, vacation, or visit. The proposed voyage would continuously circle the globe, covering most of the world's coastal regions. Its large fleet of commuter aircraft and hydrofoils would ferry residents and visitors to and from shore.

 

The website has also stated that of the possibility of putting a subway into the ship, as well as a marina and an area for the residents to place their cars.

 

Current naval engineering techniques are inadequate for the construction of such a large vessel. At present supertankers cannot be made larger because of the enormous stresses imposed on hulls by hogging and sagging in heavy seas, leading to catastrophic failures. Freedom Ship International has said on the Discovery Channel's Engineering the Impossible that they plan to use a barge building technique, which would reduce the stress of the enormous weight. Also, this would reduce the cost of custom made parts for the ship, which would allow living costs to be more reasonable. The program has also said that the propellers would be a series of 400 fully-rotational azipods; despite the high number of screws, the ship would still be the slowest in the world. Despite an initially stated in-service date of 2001, construction has not even begun as of 2008.

 

Net price estimates for the ship have risen from 6 billion US$ in 1999 to 11 billion US$ in 2002.[1]

 

 

A side view of the proposed Freedom Ship. The largest existing ship in the world, the Knock Nevis, is approximately one third of this length.

 

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