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FREE. FreeSeas Inc. Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering
Thursday October 25, 8:18 am ET

PIRAEUS, Greece, Oct. 25, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- FreeSeas Inc. (NasdaqCM:FREE - News) (NasdaqCM:FREEW - News) (NasdaqCM:FREEZ - News) (``FreeSeas'' or ``the Company''), a provider of seaborne transportation for drybulk cargoes, today announced the pricing of its follow-on offering of 11,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $8.25 per share. Credit Suisse and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. are the joint book running managers and Oppenheimer & Co., and DVB Capital Markets are co-managers. FreeSeas has granted the underwriters an option to purchase an additional 1,650,000 shares of FreeSeas common stock at the public offering price to cover any over-allotments, exercisable within 30 days.

A registration statement relating to these securities was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 24, 2007 and an additional registration statement became effective automatically upon filing on October 25, 2007. This release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. The common stock offering may be made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by contacting: