Celebrity Summit

	Celebrity Summit at West End, Bermuda on May 6, 2011
History
Name	Celebrity Summit (2008–present); Summit (2001–2008);
Owner	Celebrity Cruises
Operator	Celebrity Cruises
Port of registry	Malta, Valletta (2009–present); Bahamas, Nassau (2002–2009); Liberia, Monrovia (2001–2002);
Builder	Chantiers de l'Atlantique; St. Nazaire, France;
Cost	US$350 million
Yard number	T31
Acquired	October 2001
In service	November 2001
Identification	Call sign: 9HJC9; IMO number: 9192387; MMSI number: 249047000;
Status	In service
Notes
General characteristics
Class and type	Millennium-class cruise ship
Tonnage	91,000 GT; 53,268 NT; 11,788 DWT;
Length	294 m (965 ft)
Beam	32.30 m (106.0 ft)
Draught	8 m (26 ft)
Decks	11 (passenger accessible)
Installed power	2 × General Electric gas turbines; 50,000 kW (combined);
Propulsion	Two Rolls-Royce Mermaid azimuth thrusters
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Capacity	2,158 passengers (lower berths); 2,450 passengers (all berths);
Crew	999
Notes

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]

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 she 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, Saint John, 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]

Celebrity Summit is scheduled to undergo a dry dock in March 2019.^[5]

Ports of call

In the summer of 2006 Summit arrived in Seward, Alaska with a humpback whale dead on her bow.^[6]

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.^[7]^[8]^[9]

In March 2017, Summit had an unexpected dry dock because of a propulsion issue. One cruise was canceled and another one was shortened ^[10]

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^ ^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. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Celebrity Cruises to Refurbish Entire Fleet - Cruise Critic". www.cruisecritic.com. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
^ "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
^ "Celebrity Summit is Going to Enter an Unexpected Drydock | CruiseBe". CruiseBe. Retrieved 2018-01-23.