MV Zenith
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Zenith in La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
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| Name: | Zenith |
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| Builder: | Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany |
| Yard number: | 620[1] |
| Laid down: | 18 October 1990[2] |
| Launched: | 31 October 1991[2] |
| Completed: | 1 March 1992[2] |
| Acquired: | February 1992[1] |
| In service: | April 4, 1992[1]-present |
| Status: | In active service as of 2011 |
| Notes: | Sister ship to Pacific Dream |
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| Class & type: | Horizon class cruise ship |
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| Length: | 208.00 m (682.41 ft) |
| Beam: | 29.00 m (95.14 ft) |
| Draught: | 7.70 m (25.3 ft) |
| Depth: | 24.10 m (79.1 ft) |
| Decks: | 12 |
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| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1,828 passengers [3] |
| Crew: | 620[4] |
MV Zenith is a cruise ship owned by the Spain-based shipping company Pullmantur Cruises. She was built in 1992 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany for Celebrity Cruises.
The Zenith was built as a sister ship to Celebrity Cruises' first newbuild MV Horizon. Her interiors were designed by Michael Katsourakis and British designer John McNeece. The Zenith was delivered in February 1992 and set under Liberian flag. She was used for cruises from Florida to the Caribbean and Bermuda islands. In 2002 she was reflagged in the Bahamas. In 2007 she was transferred to Pullmantur Cruises and used for cruises around the Mediterranean.
A 7-Night Cruise from 11 to 18 March 1995 aboard the Zenith is the subject of David Foster Wallace's 1995 essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (collected in a collection of the same name and originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out"[5]).[6] Wallace refers to the Zenith as the Nadir throughout (although he insists "the rechristening's nothing particular against the ship itself").[6]
In 2014, the Zenith was moved to the fleet of CDF Croisieres de France, joining her sister ship the L’Horizon.[7]
Shipboard Fires
The ship was damaged at the stern on 8 August 2009 when a fire broke out. It was at that moment moored at Frihamnen in Stockholm.
On June 26 2013, another fire aboard the ship broke out, this time in its engine room causing it to lose power. It had to anchor 17 miles off the coast of Venice, Italy, before four tugboats came to tow it to port. One week later it went to the S.Marco shipyard in the port of Trieste.
Gallery
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MV Zenith in Bermuda.jpg
Zenith In Bermuda.
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Zenith (ship, 1992) IMO 8918136; in Split, 2011-11-01 (1).jpg
Zenith in Split, Croatia while still with Pullmantur cruises In her previous livery.
References
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- ↑ MV Zenith PDF
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- ↑ http://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/8667-cdf-confirms-second-ship-for-2014-season.html
External links
- Celebrity Cruises
- A video clip of Zenith (in Pullmantur livery) leaving Rhodos
- The Zenith page on Croisières de France website
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