MS Gemini
Celestyal Nefeli as Gemini in Stavanger
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| Route: | Eastern Mediterranean |
| Builder: | Union Navale de Levante, Valencia |
| Yard number: | 197 |
| Completed: | 1992 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9000687 |
| Status: | In service |
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| Type: | Motor Vessel |
| Tonnage: | 19,093 GT |
| Length: | 163.81 m (537 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 22.5 m (73 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 5.40 m (17 ft 9 in) |
| Installed power: | 4 x Wärtsilä 8R32 Diesels |
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| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1.074 passengers |
MV Celestyal Nefeli is a cruise ship operated by Celestyal Cruises. She was built in 1992 by Union Navale de Levante, Valencia, Spain for Crown Cruise Line as Crown Jewel. She has also sailed under the name Cunard Crown Jewel. She also operated as SuperStar Gemini for Star Cruises from 1995 to 2008.
The Crown Jewel was built in 1992 for Crown Cruise Line (a subsidiary of EffJohn), and which was itself the merger of Finland Steamship Company and Johnson Line. The vessel Crown Jewel/Gemini is the largest cruise ship ever built in Spain. Crown Cruise Line used the ship for cruises from the United States to Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean. In 1993, the Cunard Line signed a deal to handle marketing, sales and reservations for Crown Cruise Line, and the vessel was renamed Cunard Crown Jewel. In 1995 the ship was sold to Star Cruises, and renamed SuperStar Gemini and placed on cruise traffic from Singapore. In February 1997 the ship suffered an engine room fire.
In September 2007 Star Cruises reported that SuperStar Gemini had been sold and left the company fleet in December 2008. Reportedly the buyer was Jewel Owner Ltd., a company in the Bahamas-based Clipper Group of Denmark, which would charter the ship to a new operator in 2009. In 2008, the Clipper Group announced that it would rename the ship the Vision Star and lease the ship to the Spanish cruise ship operator, Vision Cruises. In March 2009, Vision Cruises ceased operations. In early 2009, Mediterranean Classic Cruises (formerly Monarch Classic Cruises) was booking cruises in the Aegean Sea aboard the Vision Star. However, these cruises were cancelled due to the non-availability of the Vision Star from Vision Cruises. Instead, the SuperStar Gemini was renamed Gemini, and currently has a Spanish operator, Quail Travel Group. Since the bankruptcy of Quail in 2011 Gemini was laid up in Tilbury Docks, Essex, awaiting sale or charter.
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