The Celebrity Summit at West End, Bermuda on May 6, 2011 |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | 2001—2008: Summit 2008-present: Celebrity Summit[1] |
| Owner: | Celebrity Cruises[1] |
| Operator: | Celebrity Cruises[1] |
| Port of registry: | 2001—2002: Monrovia, Liberia 2002-?: Nassau, Bahamas[1] As of 2009: Valetta, Malta |
| Builder: | Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St. Nazaire, France |
| Cost: | $350 million[2] |
| Yard number: | T31[1] |
| Acquired: | October 2001[1] |
| In service: | November 2001[2]-present |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9192387[1] |
| Status: | In Active Service as of 2010 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Millenium class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 90,280 GT (gross tonnage) 11,788 metric tons deadweight (DWT) |
| Length: | 294 m (964 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 32.30 m (106 ft) |
| Draught: | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
| Decks: | 11 (passenger accessible)[2] |
| Installed power: | 2 × General Electric gas turbines combined 50,000 kW |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Rolls-Royce azimuth thrusters |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44.45 km/h; 27.62 mph) |
| Capacity: | 2,034 passengers (lower berths) 2,450 passengers (all berths)[2] |
| Crew: | 999[2] |
GTS Celebrity Summit is a Millennium class cruise ship owned an 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 a "Celebrity" prefix in her name in 2008.[1]
The Summit features a special restaurant that has original panels & ornamentation from the SS Normandie, which is a more elegant alternative.[3]
Based in the Pacific Ocean, her normal cruise track finds her wintering in Hawaii and summering in Alaska with port calls at popular destinations such as Honolulu, USA, Vancouver, Canada, Juneau, USA, Los Angeles, USA and Ensenada, Mexico, from the summer of 2008 Celebrity Summit changed itinerary and instead of Alaska operated in Europe.
The Summit had an incident in the summer of 2006 when it arrived in Seward, Alaska with a humpback whale dead on its bow.[4]
In April 2010 the Celebrity Summit will be repositioned to Cape Liberty, New Jersey for cruises to Bermuda. She will be the first Celebrity ship to visit Bermuda since Zenith in 2006.[5]
In April 3, 2010, a passenger named Bob Gvicious fell off the ship. He swim for 19 hours and arrived to Cayo Lobos, 3 miles off the coast of Fajardo, Puerto Rico."[6]
On May 16, 2010, the iLounge launched on the Celebrity Summit, replacing the computer classroom on deck six.[7]
On December 24, 2011, a crew member on the Celebrity Summit jumped over the side of the ship. After 9 hours of searching the Celebrity Summit was released for rescue duties by the Coast Guard and search operations were discontinued. It is suspected the crew member committed suicide.[8]
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