Celebrity Summit
 Celebrity Summit at West End, Bermuda on May 6, 2011
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner | Celebrity Cruises |
| Operator | Celebrity Cruises |
| Port of registry | |
| Builder |
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| Cost | US$350 million |
| Yard number | T31 |
| Acquired | October 2001 |
| In service | November 2001 |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service |
| Notes | [1][2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Millennium-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 294 m (965 ft) |
| Beam | 32.30 m (106.0 ft) |
| Draught | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Decks | 11 (passenger accessible) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Capacity |
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| Crew | 999 |
| Notes | [1][2][3] |
GTS Celebrity Summit is a Millennium-class cruise ship owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises. She was built in 2001 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France for Celebrity Cruises as GTS Summit. She was renamed with the "Celebrity" prefix in 2008.[1]
Celebrity Summit features a special restaurant that has original panels & ornamentation from SS Normandie, which includes the bronze statue "LA NORMANDIE" purchased in 2001 from the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
Based in Bayonne, New Jersey or San Juan, her normal cruise track finds her wintering in southern Caribbean and summering at Bermuda with port calls at popular destinations such as Kings Wharf, and during the winter season the normally calls at St. Croix, St. Kitts, Dominica and Grenada, as well as St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Barbados and Antigua. When cruising to Canada and New England in fall, key ports of call are: Portland, Bar Harbor, Halifax, Québec City and Charlottetown.
In 2012, Celebrity Summit was outfitted with Solstice-Class features, and 60 new staterooms. She now weighs in at with 90,940 GT.[4]
Ports of call
- Summer 2012- Bermuda, New England and Canada sailing from Cape Liberty
- Winter 2012- Caribbean sailing from San Juan
- Summer 2013-Bermuda, New England and Canada sailing from Cape Liberty
- Winter 2013- Caribbean sailing from San Juan
- Summer 2014- Bermuda, New England and Canada from Cape Liberty
Accidents and incidents
In the summer of 2006 Summit arrived in Seward, Alaska with a humpback whale dead on her bow.[5]
On 3 April 2010, passenger Bob Cricius fell overboard and swam for 19 hours to Cayo Lobos, 3 miles off the coast of Fajardo, Puerto Rico.[6][7][8]
References
- ^ a b c Asklander, Micke (2008). "GTS Summit (2001)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ a b Ward, Douglas (2008). Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships. Singapore: Berlitz. pp. 293–295. ISBN 978-981-268-240-6.
- ^ "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Celebrity Summit". VesselTracker. 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- ^ "Celebrity Summit: Solsticized and ready to go!". Celebrity Cruises. 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ^ "Alaska Cruise Ship Docks With Dead Whale". CBS News. CBS Interactive Inc. 21 August 2006. Archived from the original on October 29, 2006.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Carla V. Correa Cepeda (3 April 2010). "Rescatan náufrago en Fajardo que nadó 19 horas". Primera Hora. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ http://www.castlesoftheseas.nl/celebrity-summit.html
- ^ http://www.cruisejunkie.com/Overboard.html
External links
- Official website
- Cruise Critic review
- Celebrity Summit ship location in Google Maps