MV Celebrity Mercury

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Celebrity Mercury
Mercury
Status: in service
Launched: Nov 02, 1997
Tonnage: 77,713 gross tons
Length: 866 feet
Beam: 105.6 feet
Draft: 25.5 feet
Decks: 12
Occupancy: 1,886
Cruisespeed: 21.5 knots
Registry: Bahamas

MV Celebrity Mercury is a Century class cruise ship owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises. She was built in 1997 as MV Mercury by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.

The grand foyer of Mercury
The grand foyer of Mercury

In the summer of 2006, just prior to the Mercury's planned departure for an Alaska cruise, Seattle-based inspectors from the U.S. Coast Guard arrested the captain of the Mercury for intoxication. Celebrity Cruises arranged for a replacement, and fired the original captain.[1][2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Periklis Petridis / Drunk Captain Celebrity Cruise Lines - Mercury. cruisebruise.com (May 19, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
  2. ^ "Lawyer says ship captain arrested, fired over drinking was off duty", Seattle Times, May 23, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 

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