Celebrity Summit
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| GTS Summit GTS Summit near Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, photographed May 2006 | |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: |
2001—2008: GTS Summit 2008-present: GTS Celebrity Summit[1] |
| Owner: | Celebrity Cruises[1] |
| Operator: | Celebrity Cruises[1] |
| Port of registry: |
2001—2002: Monrovia, 22x20px 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]
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 will change itinerary and instead of Alaska she will operate 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.[3] 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.[4]
In April 3, 2010, a passenger named Bob Gvicious fell off the ship. He swam for 19 hours and arrived to Cayo Lobos, 3 miles off the coast of Fajardo, Puerto Rico."[5]
On May 16, 2010 the Celebrity Summit will launch the iLounge. The Celebrity iLounge will replace the current computer classroom on deck six.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Asklander, Micke. "GTS Summit (2001)" (in Swedish). Fakta om Fartyg. http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/summit_2001.htm. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Ward, Douglas (2008). Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships. Singapore: Berlitz. pp. 293–295. ISBN 978-981-268-240-6.
- ↑ |date=21 August 2006 |last= |first= |work=CBS News |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc |language=}} {{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/21/ap/national/mainD8JKGNBG0.shtml |title=Alaska Cruise Ship Docks With Dead Whale |accessdate=
- ↑ "Celebrity returns to Bermuda in 2010". Cruise Business Review. Cruise Media Oy Ltd. 24 November 2008. http://cruisebusiness.com/news.php?u=20081124235020. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
- ↑ Primera Hora "Rescatan náufrago en Fajardo que nadó 19 horas"
- ↑ http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/press-release/rcl_celebrity-cruises-to-present-celebrity-ilounge-on-celebrity-solstice-and-celebrity-summit-891402.html
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