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Carnival Freedom

Carnival Freedom is a Conquest-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She is the 22nd operating vessel in the fleet, and the last of the Conquest-class ships. The ship was built as part of a four-ship deal with Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard and was launched in Venice, Italy on 28 April 2006. She was delivered to Carnival on 28 February 2007.

The ship has 1,150 crew, 1,487 cabins and is able to carry 2,974 passengers traveling at a speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph).

The ship was built by Fincantieri at its Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy. She was floated out on 28 April 2006, delivered to Carnival on 28 February 2007, and formally named in Venice by American model, actress, author and entrepreneur Kathy Ireland on 4 March 2007.

Carnival Freedom initially sailed from her homeport in Civitavecchia near Rome on Mediterranean cruises until the Fall of 2007 when she sailed the Caribbean Sea from the Port of Miami. In the summer of 2008, she returned to Europe and sailed in the Mediterranean again. In the fall of 2008, she sailed the Caribbean again but out of Port Everglades until February 2015 when she changed her home port to Galveston, Texas.

Carnival Freedom entered a three-week routine drydock in Freeport, Bahamas on 30 March 2014 for refurbishment.

The ship went for another dry dock in March 2019. That month, the ship debuted with its water park and major renovation. Carnival Freedom resumed port calls to Grand Bahama in November 2019 when Hurricane Dorian ravaged the country. In 2019, a photographer took a picture of the ship emitting black smoke in Cayman Islands. The cruise line told the media that the smoke was caused by an engine turbocharger malfunction.

On 23 March 2020, a crew member who had sailed on the six day 8 March cruise out of Galveston, Texas was hospitalized in Gulfport, Mississippi after experiencing flu-like symptoms. On 25 March they received a positive test result for COVID-19 and passengers from the cruise were subsequently asked to quarantine for 14 days by the cruise line. The passengers had disembarked in Galveston, Texas on 14 March – a day after Carnival Cruise Line suspended operations due to coronavirus.

The ship repositioned to Seattle and sails to Alaska since 2021.

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