Gemini (ship)
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The Gemini is a cruise ship built in 1992 as Crown Jewel for the Crown Cruise Line .
history
The ship was built under hull number 197 at the Union Naval de Levante shipyard in Valencia for the Crown Cruise Line. The keel of the ship was laid in July 1990 and it was launched on May 30, 1991. It was completed in May 1992.
The ship was put into service as the Crown Jewel and was initially used as a barge during the Olympic Games in Barcelona . From September 1992 it was used by the Crown Cruise Line belonging to the Commodore Cruise Line for cruises from the USA to Bermuda and the Caribbean . After the Commodore Cruise Line got into financial difficulties in 1993, Cunard Line took over the operation of the ships of the Crown Cruise Line and marketed the ship under the Cunard Crown brand as the Cunard Crown Jewel . In 1995 the ship was sold to Star Cruises and renamed SuperStar Gemini . Star Cruises used the ship for cruises from Singapore . At the end of 2007 Star Cruises sold the ship to the Danish Clipper Group. The ship was chartered by Star Cruises until January 2009.
In January 2009, the ship, which was to start a charter with the Spanish cruise operator Vision Cruceros, was renamed Vision Star . Vision Cruceros, however, filed for bankruptcy before the trips began. The ship was then chartered to the Spanish cruise operator Quail Cruises (later Happy Cruises) and renamed Gemini in April of that year . The company ceased operations in September 2011. Happy Cruises marketed the ship with a passenger capacity of 800 people and 385 crew members.
From October 2011 the ship was laid up in Tilbury . In 2012 it was temporarily used as a barge during the Olympic Games in London and moved to the Royal Albert Dock in London .
From mid-2014 to the end of 2015, the ship was chartered by Petrofac and used in the Shetland Islands as an accommodation ship for workers who were busy building a gas works in Sullom Voe .
The ship then entered a charter with the Cypriot shipping company Celestyal Cruises, which emerged from Louis Cruises . The ship, renamed Celestyal Nefeli , was used for cruises in the South Aegean in 2016 and 2017 . After the charter, which expired in October, the Clipper Group chartered the ship to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency , which after Hurricane Maria , which left severe damage in the US Virgin Islands in September, next to the Grand Celebration and Carnival Fascination as Houseboat used for disaster relief and reconstruction personnel.
In the summer season 2018 from the beginning of June to the middle of September the ship sailed again in the Aegean Sea, this time in charter with the Turkish Etstur . In the spring of 2019, the ship was used again as a residential ship until mid-April, this time for workers who were involved in the conversion of the Carnival Triumph cruise ship to Carnival Sunrise at the Navantia shipyard in Cádiz, Spain . Etstur then chartered the ship again and used it for cruises in the Aegean Sea from late May to early September.
Sister ship of the Gemini is the present-day Braemar, built in 1993 as Crown Dynasty .
Technical data and equipment
The ship is powered by four eight-cylinder - four stroke - diesel engines of the manufacturer Wärtsilä (type: 8R32) each with 3,280 kW power driven. The motors act on two controllable pitch propellers . The ship is equipped with two bow thrusters with 750 kW each.
For the power supply there are two Wärtsilä diesel engines (type: 6R32) with 2100 kW output (2625 kVA apparent power ) and one Siemens generators driven by a Wärtsilä diesel engine (type: 4R32) with 1472 kW output (1840 kVA apparent power) as well as a Siemens emergency generator (1840 kVA apparent power) driven by a Wärtsilä diesel engine (type: 4R32) with 1472 kW output.
The ship has nine decks , of which decks 2 to 8 are accessible to passengers. There are various restaurants and bars as well as a theater on board. On decks 5 to 7 there are open deck areas at the stern. On deck 8 there is a sundeck with a pool and whirlpools. There is also a fitness room and wellness area with sauna and massage parlor. An infirmary has been set up on deck 2 .
The passenger cabins are on decks 2 to 4 as well as 6 and 7, those of the crew on decks 1 and 2 and the officers' cabins on deck 7, on which the bridge is also located. Kitchen and various storage rooms for hotel operations are located on decks 2 and 3. The mess rooms for the ship's crew , which also serve as common rooms, are located on deck 2. Another common room for the ship's crew is set up on deck 1.
The ship's passenger capacity is 960 people, which can be accommodated in 400 cabins. The number of crew members is around 360 people.
Web links
- GA plan (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c M / S Crown Jewel , Fakta om Farty. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ^ Games with Olympic Charters , Cybercruises.com. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Cruise ship: Idle in Tilbury , Ships Monthly, December 10, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ^ Voyager , Castles of the Seas. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Kai Ortel: In the footsteps of the Gemini , Vereinigung Europäische Schifffahrtsjournalisten e. V. (VEUS), June 2, 2019. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ↑ a b Kari Reinikainen: Spanish operator Happy Cruises closes down on liquidity woes , Cruise Business Magazine, September 26, 2011. Accessed January 17, 2020.
- ↑ a b M / V Gemini - Main Details ... ( Memento from March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Happy Cruises, Quail Travel Group.
- ↑ Peter Knego: Ocean Pearl sold, Gemini chartered , MaritimeMatters, April 9, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ↑ Sixth vessel as Petrofac workforce grows , Shetland News, July 14, 2014. Accessed January 17, 2020.
- ↑ Gemini departs village after year-long stay , Shetland News, December 1, 2015. Accessed January 17, 2020th
- ↑ Monty Mathisen: Gemini Also on FEMA Charter for $ 10.6 Million , Cruise Industry News, January 12, 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ↑ Etstur to Offer Summer Season Aboard Gemini , Cruise Industry News, February 7, 2018. Accessed January 17, 2020.
- ↑ Monty Mathisen: Etstur to Operate Gemini for 2019 Summer Season , Cruise Industry News, March 21, 2019. Accessed January 17, 2020.
- ^ Our Fleet , Cruise Management International. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ↑ Information from Etstur . Retrieved January 17, 2020.