GTS ''Celebrity Summit'' is a owned and operated by

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and as such one of the first cruise ships to be powered by more environmentally friendly

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s. Originally named ''Summit'', she was renamed with the "Celebrity" prefix in 2008.

Construction

She was built in 2001 by the

Chantiers de l'Atlantique Chantiers de l'Atlantique is a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Nazaire, France. It is one of the world's largest shipyards, constructing a wide range of commercial, naval, and passenger ships. It is located near Nantes, at the mouth of the Loire, ...

shipyard in St. Nazaire, France for Celebrity Cruises.

Design

Machinery

She is fitted with two General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines and is fitted with two Rolls-Royce Mermaid azimuthing electric pod propulsion units. These pods proved unreliable early in the ships career, however with upgrades and operational experience they are currently more reliable. She also has three bow thrusters.

Layout

As per the practice with the other ships of her class she included a remembrance in one of her restaurants to an historic early liner in the form of several panels and a bronze statue from the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ship . The statue, which was named ''La Normandie'', had been purchased by Celebrity Cruises from the Miami Beach based Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel. The statue has since been removed from the main dining room during the ship's refurbishment in March 2019. In 2012 she was refitted at a cost of US$16 million which included the creation of extra cabins. This increased her double occupancy to 2,158 passengers and her

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to 90,940. ''Celebrity Summit'' spent approximately three weeks in dry dock followed by time in the shipyard in March 2019 having all of her existing cabins and suites refurbished as well as the addition of 30 new cabins which will bring her total capacity to 2,218 (double occupancy).

Operation

In the summer of 2006 ''Summit'' arrived in Seward, Alaska with a humpback whale dead on her bow. On 3 April 2010, passenger Bob Gricius fell overboard and swam for 17 hours to Cayo Lobos, off the coast of

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. In March 2017, ''Celebrity Summit'' had an unscheduled dry dock because of a propulsion issue. One cruise was canceled and another one was shortened. ''Celebrity Summit'' currently undertakes cruises from

Bayonne, New Jersey Bayonne ( ) is a City (New Jersey), city in Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, in the Gateway Region on Bergen Neck, a peninsula between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill Van Kull to the south, and New York ...

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to destinations in Bermuda and the Caribbean. Additionally, other services on the ''Celebrity Summit'' start from

Vancouver, Canada Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Me ...

and has destinations to

Seward, Alaska Seward (Alutiiq language, Alutiiq: ; Denaʼina language, Dena'ina: ''Tl'ubugh'') is an incorporated home rule city in Alaska, United States. Located on Resurrection Bay, a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula, Seward is situated ...

and

San Pedro, California San Pedro ( ; ) is a neighborhood located within the South Bay (Los Angeles County), South Bay and Los Angeles Harbor Region, Harbor region of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. Formerly a separate city, it consolidated with Los ...

. ''Celebrity Summit'' has future plans to sail from

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to destinations in Mexico and the Bahamas.

References

External links

Official website
{{Celebrity Ships 2001 ships Ships built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique

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