Celebrity Summit

GTS Celebrity Summit is a Millennium-class cruise ship owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises and as such one of the first cruise ships to be powered by more environmentally friendly gas turbines.[4] Originally named Summit, she was renamed with the "Celebrity" prefix in 2008.[1]

Celebrity Summit departing Bar Harbor in June 2019.
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
Launched: 9 March 2001
Acquired: October 2001
In service: November 2001
Identification:
Status: Service suspended
Notes: [1][2]
General characteristics
Class and type: Millennium-class cruise ship
Tonnage:
  • 90,940 GT
  • 53,268 NT
  • 11,788 DWT
Length: 294 m (964 ft 7 in)
Beam: 32.00 m (105 ft 0 in)
Draught: 8 m (26 ft 3 in)
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)
  • 2,218 passengers (all berths)
Crew: 999
Notes: [1][2][3]
Celebrity Summit docked in Key West in 2017
At Key West in 2017

Construction

She was built in 2001 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique 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 but now with upgrades and operational experience they are now very reliable.[4] 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 Normandie. 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.[4] This increased her double occupancy to 2,158 passengers[4] and her gross tonnage to 90,940.[5]

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).[4][6]

Operation

In the summer of 2006 Summit arrived in Seward, Alaska with a humpback whale dead on her bow.[7]

On 3 April 2010, passenger Bob Gricius fell overboard and swam for 17 hours to Cayo Lobos, three miles (4.8 km) off the coast of Fajardo, Puerto Rico.[8][9][10]

In March 2017, Celebrity Summit had an unscheduled dry dock because of a propulsion issue. One cruise was canceled and another one was shortened.[11]

Celebrity Summit undertakes cruises from Bayonne, New Jersey or San Juan to destinations in the Caribbean.

Incidents

Coronavirus pandemic

During the coronavirus pandemic, the CDC reported, as early as 2020.04.22, that at least one person who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 had tested positive within 14 days after disembarking.[12]

See also
  • Kate McCue, Captain of Celebrity Summit 2015–2018

References
  1. Asklander, Micke (2008). "GTS Summit (2001)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  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. Jordan, Allan E. (November 2018), "Celebrity Summit", Ships Monthly: 50–52
  5. "Celebrity Summit: Solsticized and ready to go!". Celebrity Cruises. 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  6. "Celebrity Cruises to Refurbish Entire Fleet - Cruise Critic". www.cruisecritic.com. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  7. "Alaska Cruise Ship Docks With Dead Whale". CBS News. CBS Interactive Inc. 21 August 2006. Archived from the original on 29 October 2006.
  8. Correa Cepeda, Carla V. (3 April 2010). "Rescatan náufrago en Fajardo que nadó 19 horas". Primera Hora. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  9. "Celebrity Summit". Castles of the Seas. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  10. "Cruise and Ferry Passengers and Crew Overboard 1995 - 2019". Cruise Ship Junkie. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  11. "Celebrity Summit is Going to Enter an Unexpected Drydock | CruiseBe". CruiseBe. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20200422081046/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/cruise-ship/what-cdc-is-doing.html

Further reading
  • Cudahy, Brian J (2001). The Cruise Ship Phenomenon in North America. Centreville, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press. ISBN 0-87033-529-4.
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