Celebrity Summit
Celebrity Summit at West End, Bermuda on May 6, 2011
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| Owner: | Celebrity Cruises |
| Operator: | Celebrity Cruises |
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| Cost: | US$350 million |
| Yard number: | T31 |
| Acquired: | October 2001 |
| In service: | November 2001 |
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| Status: | In service |
| Notes: | [1][2] |
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| Class & type: | Millennium-class cruise ship |
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| Length: | 294 m (965 ft) |
| Beam: | 32.30 m (106.0 ft) |
| Draught: | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Decks: | 11 (passenger accessible) |
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| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
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| Crew: | 999 |
| Notes: | [1][2][3] |
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 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
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- ↑ http://www.castlesoftheseas.nl/celebrity-summit.html
- ↑ http://www.cruisejunkie.com/Overboard.html
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Celebrity Summit (ship, 2001). |
- Official website
- Cruise Critic review
- Celebrity Summit ship location in Google Maps
