With Reuben Goossens
Cruise’n’Travel Journalist / Cruise Reviewer
& Maritime Historian
Celebrity
Cruises
MV Celebrity Solstice
“A Remarkable & the most Advanced Cruise
Ship in the World”
Please
Note: Cruise-Australia is a non-commercial and privately owned
cruise site and it is NOT associated with any cruise company or travel agency!
Although the author has been in the passenger shipping industry since 1960 and
is currently semi-retired, but continues to write cruise and ship reviews and
articles in order to better to inform cruise and ship enthusiasts and provide
information for those intending a cruise in the future. Please
read my statement at the bottom of the page!
One
of the most magnificent modern cruise ships in the world the new MV Celebrity
Solstice
Provided
by Meyer Werft
Celebrity
Cruises’ Celebrity Solstice is the first of a series of five
revolutionary ships known as the “Post-Panmax
Class” to be built at the Meyer Werft Ship Yards in Germany.
Each year until 2012 a new ship will added to the fleet. At 122,000-tons, the
Celebrity Solstice is the largest ship ever built for Celebrity Cruises, with
another four to follow.
General Information and Specifications: She entered service in October
2008 and operates the ever popular Florida,
Caribbean regions. She accommodates 2,850 passengers, which for her size is a
low number. She is 314,80m long and has a beam of 36,80m. There are 12
passenger decks: 12, and she operated at an average
cruising speed of 24 knots. Her total installed power is 91.364 kW, having the
famed - Azipods drives all built by Meyer Werft
- Germany
in Yard no 675. She is registered in Valletta
Malta.
To date have now completed my page on her and a
link is located below. However, below the next photograph there are three links
to the following sites: 1. Andreas
Depping photographs of her being
built. 2. Celebrities own photo catalogue. And 3.
Famed maritime historian and author Peter Knego’s detailed review of the ship, complete with many
fine images.
Enjoy this magnificent ship of the future!
Celebrity
Solstice seen in Ft
Lauderdale
*Photographer
unknown – see notes at bottom of page
Enter Celebrity Solstice - Page Two
1. For photographs of the various
stages of this fine ship whilst being built at the Meyer Werft shipyards at Papenburg, Germany,
visit the superb website of my good friend Andreas Depping on his “CruiseShip-Gallery.”
You will be able to see her from 2007 on her stocks right to her being launched
and finally some of her fine in and exteriors. Go and enjoy!
2. Click the
image BUTTON Above and Visit Celebrity Cruises Tour of the ship.
It starts with
the ships departing Germany
then the stateroom and so much more!
3. Peter
Knego - Celebrity Solstice Blog and Photographs
This
page has a superb background on this fine ship as well as many interior and
exterior photographs – Worth a Visit!
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Commenced in the Passenger Shipping
Industry in May 1960
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Note: Cruise-Australia is a
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cruise company or agency. The author has been in the passenger shipping
industry since 1960 and is currently semi-retired, but continues to write
cruise and ship reviews and articles in order to better to inform cruise and
ship enthusiasts and provide information for those intending a cruise in the
future.
However, if you are interested in a cruise, I am happy to refer you to a
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However, there are photographs provided to me without details provided
regarding the photographer concerned. I hereby invite if owners of these images
would be so kind to make them-selves known to me, that due credit may be given.
I know what it is like, I have seen a multitude of my own photographs on other
sites, yet they either refuse to give me credit and
even refuse to remove them, knowing full well that there is no legal comeback
when it comes to the net. However, let us show the charlatans up and do the
right thing at all times and give credit where credit is due! Note: I do not
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concerned, unless the image is part of their private collection.
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