The vessel is a mile long, 25-storeys-high and has enough room for 50,000 permanent residents.
It features schools, hospitals, art galleries, shops, parks, an aquarium, casino and even an art gallery as well as an airport on the roof and a docking bay at the rear.
Designed by the Freedom Ship International, based in Florida, the floating city costs $10 billion and weigh 2.7 million tonnes - making it too large to ever dock.
The ship would spend the whole time at sea, circling the globe once every two years, powered by solar and wave energy
THE FREEDOM SHIP IN NUMBERS
Width: 750ft
Length: 4,500ft
Height: 350ft
Weight: 2.7 million tones
Capacity: 50,000 permanent residents with room for an extra 30,000 daily visitors, 20,000 crew and 10,000 overnight guests.
Cost: $10 billion
Buildings: Accommodation, schools, hospitals, businesses, parks, promenades, an art gallery, a shopping centre, casino and airport
The designs also include a shopping centre covering 1.7 million square foot.
During this time, Freedom Ship International claim the ship would spend 70 per cent off the shore of major cities and 30 per cent moving between countries.
The route would take the ship from the east coast of the U.S across the Atlantic Ocean into Europe, passing Italy before looping back and sailing around Africa, across to Australia, heading north into Asia before spending the end of the year on the west coast of America and into South America.
Visitors and residents would be able to leave the ship, either by plane or by boat thanks to a dock at the rear to visit cities and countries where the ship will also pick up supplies as and when needed.
The airport, on the ship’s top deck, would serve private and small commercial aircraft carrying up to 40 passengers each.
Roger M Gooch, director and vice-president of Freedom Ship International said: "The Freedom Ship will be the largest vessel ever built, and the first ever floating city. This will be a very heavily capitalised project and the global economy in the last few years hasn't been too inviting for unproven progressive projects like ours. Happily, though it has experienced a hiatus, the Freedom Ship now looks as if it is a live project again. In the last six months we're getting more interest in the project and we are hopeful we will raise the $1 billion to begin construction”.
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