Celebrity Millennium

GTS Celebrity Millennium
Career
Name:	Celebrity Millennium Millennium 2001-2008
Operator:	Celebrity Cruises
Port of registry:	Bahamas, Nassau 2000-2007  Malta, Valetta 2007-present
Builder:	Chantier de L'Atlantique St. Nazaire, France
Christened:	June 17, 2000
In service:	2000-present
Identification:	IMO number: 9189419
Status:	Active service as of 2010
Notes:	[1]
General characteristics
Tonnage:	91,000 gross tons
Length:	964.6 ft (294 m)
Beam:	105.6 ft (32 m)
Draft:	26.3 ft (8 m)
Decks:	11 (passenger accessible)
Installed power:	2 × General Electric gas turbines combined 50,000 kW
Propulsion:	2 × 19 MW Rolls-Royce/Alstom MerMaid azimuth thrusters
Speed:	24-knot (44 km/h)
Capacity:	1,950 passengers
Crew:	999

GTS Millennium is the flagship of the Millennium Class of cruise ships, operated by the Celebrity Cruises line. Her sister ships are Constellation, Infinity, and Summit.

She was built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique in St. Nazaire, France. When launched in 2000, Millennium was the world's first ship to use a turbo-electric COGES power plant.

Millennium has a restaurant which 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 1936.

Sources of food include a two level main dining room, and a buffet that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Sources of entertainment include the Celebrity Theatre, in which musical shows, comedians, or big-screen movies can be seen. The theatre is also used for gathering people on excursions, as well as informative talks. Another source is the cinema, located on the third deck. This is used for informative talks as well as daily movies.

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.^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2011, a female passenger in her 60's was declared missing when she failed to disembark at a port call in San Diego. Security cameras on the ship showed that she deliberately jumped off the ship in the waters between Cabo San Lucas and San Diego.^[3][4]

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  View of the pools

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  Hot tub

References

1. ^ "Millennium Image Display". SeapixOnline. Archived from the original on 2009-01-23. http://www.webcitation.org/5e3Dw5d5Z. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 
2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ZRh21IxH0
3. ^ Spagat, Elliot (May 4, 2011). "Cruise passenger jumps overboard near San Diego, cruise line says". Associated Press. http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/cruise_line_says_passenger_jum.html. Retrieved June 28, 2011. 
4. ^ "Cruise ship passenger missing off Calif. coast". CBS News. May 4, 2011. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/04/national/main20059726.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;morenews. 

External links

• Two-part video tour of Celebrity Millennium
• Celebrity Cruises
• Official Celebrity Millennium UK site
• Video Clip of Millennium leaving Venice