Celebrity Summit

Celebrity Summit at West End, Bermuda on May 6, 2011
History
Name:
  • Celebrity Summit (2008–present)
  • Summit (2001–2008)
Owner: Celebrity Cruises
Operator: Celebrity Cruises
Port of registry:
Builder:
Cost: US$350 million
Yard number: T31
Acquired: October 2001
In service: November 2001
Identification:
Status: In service
Notes: [1][2]
General characteristics
Class and type: Millennium-class cruise ship
Tonnage:
  • 91,000 GT
  • 53,268 NT
  • 11,788 DWT
Length: 294 m (965 ft)
Beam: 32.30 m (106.0 ft)
Draught: 8 m (26 ft)
Decks: 11 (passenger accessible)
Installed power:
Propulsion: Two Rolls-Royce Mermaid azimuth thrusters
Speed: 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Capacity:
  • 2,158 passengers (lower berths)
  • 2,450 passengers (all berths)
Crew: 999
Notes: [1][2][3]

GTS Celebrity Summit is a Millennium-class cruise ship owned and 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]

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 she 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, Saint John, 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]

Celebrity Summit is scheduled to undergo a dry dock in March 2019.[5]

Ports of call

  • Winter 2016-17- Caribbean sailing from San Juan
  • Summer 2017– Bermuda, New England and Canada sailing from Cape Liberty
  • Winter 2017-18- Caribbean sailing from San Juan
  • Summer 2018– 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.[6]

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.[7][8][9]

In March 2017, Summit had an unexpected dry dock because of a propulsion issue. One cruise was canceled and another one was shortened [10]

Celebrity Summit 2009 leaving Venice. In the background the basilica Santa Maria della Salute.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Asklander, Micke (2008). "GTS Summit (2001)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  2. 1 2 Ward, Douglas (2008). Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships. Singapore: Berlitz. pp. 293–295. ISBN 978-981-268-240-6.
  3. ↑ "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Celebrity Summit". VesselTracker. 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Celebrity Summit: Solsticized and ready to go!". Celebrity Cruises. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  5. ↑ "Celebrity Cruises to Refurbish Entire Fleet - Cruise Critic". www.cruisecritic.com. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  6. ↑ "Alaska Cruise Ship Docks With Dead Whale". CBS News. CBS Interactive Inc. 21 August 2006. Archived from the original on October 29, 2006.
  7. ↑ Carla V. Correa Cepeda (3 April 2010). "Rescatan náufrago en Fajardo que nadó 19 horas". Primera Hora. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  8. ↑ http://www.castlesoftheseas.nl/celebrity-summit.html
  9. ↑ http://www.cruisejunkie.com/Overboard.html
  10. ↑ "Celebrity Summit is Going to Enter an Unexpected Drydock | CruiseBe". CruiseBe. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
Celebrity Summit docked in Portland, ME on June 29th, 2018.
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