MS Freedom of the Seas is a Royal Caribbean International cruise ship and the name ship of its class. The world’s largest passenger vessel, it can accommodate over 4,300 passengers on its fifteen passenger decks, served by over 1300 crew. It and its two sister ships will keep the title of the largest passenger ships ever built until construction of the Genesis class ships in 2009, also owned by Royal Caribbean International.

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The RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) is a Cunard Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner Queen Mary, which was in turn named after Mary of Teck, the Queen Consort of George V. At the time of her construction in 2003 by the Chantiers de l’Atlantique, the QM2 was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, and at 148,528 gross tons, was also the largest. She lost that last distinction to Royal Caribbean International’s 154,407 gross ton Freedom of the Seas in April 2006, but QM2 remains the largest ocean liner (as opposed to cruise ship) ever built, and her height, length, and waterline breadth are unsurpassed by any other passenger ship. The true distinction becomes somewhat cloudy, because “gross tonnage” is actually a measure of a ship’s enclosed volume; “displacement” is a measure of the weight of water the ship displaces – and therefore equivalent to its “weight”. The Royal Caribbean “Freedom” ships displace about 64,000 tons; the QM2, about 76,000.

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