Celebrity Summit at West End, Bermuda on May 6, 2011
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Owner: | Celebrity Cruises |
Operator: | Celebrity Cruises |
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Cost: | US$350 million |
Yard number: | T31 |
Acquired: | October 2001 |
In service: | November 2001 |
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Status: | In service |
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Class and type: | Millennium-class cruise ship |
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Length: | 294 m (965 ft) |
Beam: | 32.30 m (106.0 ft) |
Draught: | 8 m (26 ft) |
Decks: | 11 (passenger accessible) |
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Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
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Crew: | 999 |
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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.
Celebrity Summit features a special restaurant that has original panels & ornamentation from SS Normandie, which includes the bronze statue "LA NORMANDIE" purchased in 2001 from the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
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 the 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, Halifax, Québec City and Charlottetown.