Millennium (ship)
GTS Celebrity Millennium
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| Operator: | Celebrity Cruises |
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| Builder: | Chantier de L'Atlantique, St. Nazaire, France |
| Christened: | June 17, 2000 |
| Maiden voyage: | 1 July 2000 |
| In service: | 2000–present |
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| Status: | In service |
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| Class and type: | Millennium-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 90,963 GT |
| Length: | 964.6 ft (294 m) |
| Beam: | 105.6 ft (32 m) |
| Draught: | 26ft |
| Draft: | 26.3 ft (8 m) |
| Decks: | 11 (passenger accessible) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 × 19 MW Rolls-Royce/Alstom Mermaid azimuth thrusters |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Capacity: | 2,138 passengers |
| Crew: | 920-999 |
GTS Millennium is the flagship of the Millennium-class cruise ships, operated by Celebrity Cruises line. Her sister ships are Constellation, Infinity, and Summit.
Millennium was built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique in St. Nazaire, France. When launched in 2000, she was the world's first ship to use a turbo-electric COGAS power plant. Combined gas and steam (COGAS) is the name given to marine compound powerplants comprising gas and steam turbines, the latter being driven by steam generated using the heat from the exhaust of the gas turbines. In this way, some of the otherwise lost energy can be reclaimed and the specific fuel consumption of the plant can be decreased.
Millennium has a restaurant that contains wooden panels originally used in the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic), removed and preserved when that ship was sold for scrap in 1935.
Sources of food include a two level main dining room, called "Metropolitan", and a buffet that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner on deck 10.
Millennium was docked in Athens, Greece, on September 11, 2001, and went into high-security lock-down upon receipt of news regarding the September 11 attacks in the USA. A Celebrity Cruises-sponsored marketing event onboard was in progress but it was curtailed and everyone except passengers and crew were removed from the ship. All other passenger activities except food service were cancelled. The following day, while at sea, a small private plane began to circle the ship, causing panic among several passengers on deck. The plane eventually flew away.
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