TL;DRThe Freedom Ship, a mile-long nuclear-powered vessel for 80,000 people, has been revived under new leadership with fresh renderings and a £12 billion price tag. The concept has been “about to break ground” since the 1990s, with no confirmed funding.
The renderings are gorgeous. A mile-long vessel, 800 feet wide, 30 decks high, gliding across the open ocean with parks, schools, a 15,000-seat sports stadium, and enough residential space for 50,000 permanent inhabitants. Nuclear-powered, perpetually circumnavigating the globe, never docking in port. A floating city, in the most literal sense.
The Freedom Ship has been proposed, revised, shelved, revived, and re-rendered so many times since the 1990s that Newsweek recently noted the headline announcing its imminent construction has now run, in nearly identical form, across three different decades. It is back again, this time under Freedom Cruise Line CEO Roger Gooch, who has assembled a 12-person leadership team and commissioned new designs from arcologist Kevin Schopfer.
“We feel very confident that we can put this together, but the capitalisation is key,” Gooch told the Telegraph.
What the ship would be
