Engineering:Celebrity Constellation
 GTS Constellation at Barbados, 2006
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| Owner: | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. |
| Operator: | Celebrity Cruises |
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| Builder: | Chantier de L'Atlantique, St. Nazaire, France |
| Yard number: | U31 |
| Laid down: | 9 April 2001 |
| Launched: | 31 October 2001 |
| Christened: | 12 May 2002 |
| In service: | 2002-present |
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| Status: | Service suspended |
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| Class and type: | Millennium-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 90,940 GT[1] |
| Length: | 965 ft (294 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 106 ft (32.2 m)[1] |
| Draft: | 27.3 ft (8.323 m)[1] |
| Decks: | 13 |
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| Propulsion: | 2 × 19 MW Rolls-Royce/Alstom Mermaid azimuth thrusters |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Capacity: | 2,170 (double occupancy) passengers |
| Crew: | 999 |
GTS Celebrity Constellation is a Millennium-class cruise ship of Celebrity Cruises. She was originally named Constellation, but renamed in May 2007.[2] Her three sister ships are the Celebrity Infinity, Celebrity Summit, and Celebrity Millennium.
She was built at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France . The ship is powered by a COGES[3] power plant of gas turbines and a steam turbine providing up to 60 megawatts for the electric systems and two 19 MW Rolls-Royce/Alstom MerMaid azimuth thrusters for propulsion. In 2007, an additional diesel engine was fitted as a fuel-saving measure.[4] The ship can run on any combination of the gas turbines or diesel. In port, she generates electrical power from the diesel.
During the summer period the ship sails to the Mediterranean, repositioning to the Caribbean in the winter months.
Celebrity Constellation was scheduled to complete an extensive renovation in May 2020.[5] However, rumour has it that those plans are now on hold, as a result of the business impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. Another rumour that Celebrity Constellation and sister ship Celebrity Infinity are to be sold or leased to Spanish cruise line, Pulmantur, has been denied[6] by Celebrity Cruises.
Routes
Celebrity Constellation currently operates in the Mediterranean and Adriatic during the summer seasons and in the Persian Gulf during the rest of the calendar year. In October 2020, she will reposition to Tampa, Florida to cruise the Caribbean and the Panama Canal, the first time Celebrity has operated out of Tampa in 13 years.[7]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Celebrity Constellation (9192399)". Lloyd's Register. https://classdirect.lr.org/lros?lrno=9192399.
- ↑ (in Swedish) Fakta om Fartyg: GTS Constellation (2002), retrieved 7. 11. 2007
- ↑ "GE Article on Equipment of Millennium Class Cruisers". http://www.geae.com/aboutgeae/presscenter/marine/marine_20021217.html.
- ↑ Installation of Aux Diesel on Millennium and her sisters, retrieved 21 January 2009
- ↑ "Cruise Ship Dry Dock/Upgrade Schedules for Cruise Lines in 2018-2023" (in en-US). https://cruisefever.net/0804-each-cruise-lines-upgrade-schedule-cruise-ships-2023/.
- ↑ "Celebrity Cruises Has No Plans to Offload Ships to Pullmantur" (in en-US). 2020-11-28. https://www.cruisehive.com/celebrity-cruises-has-no-plans-to-offload-ships-to-pullmantur/43618.
- ↑ "Celebrity Cruises returning to Port Tampa Bay late next year" (in en). https://tampabay.com/business/celebrity-cruises-returning-to-port-tampa-bay-late-next-year-20190814/.
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