Zenith (ship)
 The Zenith in Valletta
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The motor ship Zenith is a cruise ship that was built for Celebrity Cruises at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg and delivered to the American shipping company in 1992.
history
The ship was commissioned as a sister ship to Celebrity Cruises Horizon (later Island Star , Pacific Dream ) by Celebrity Cruises, at that time still a subsidiary of the Greek shipping company Chandris , from Meyer Werft. The slightly larger Zenith was designed by yacht designer Jan Bannenberg and was similar to the Horizon except for the front body part, an imperceptible extension offered space for an additional ten passenger cabins. She was delivered on February 15, 1992 and entered service under the flag of the Republic of Liberia . She entered New York Harbor for the first time in March 1992 . The first cruise was from Florida on April 4, 1992 .
The cruise ship was completely renovated in 1999 and has since been placed in the upper five-star segment. It offered space for 1375 passengers with a crew of around 640 people. She was used for cruises from Florida with the ports of departure Miami or Tampa to the Caribbean and Bermuda .
The Zenith was entered on December 18, 2002 in the shipping register of the Bahamas . The new home port was Nassau . Between May and November 2006 she was used for cruises along the west coast of the USA. Port of departure were Vancouver or Seattle. With the relocation, Celebrity Cruises met the increased demands on Alaska cruises.
The Zenith was the object of a ship swap in 2007. The swap became possible because the shipping company Celebrity Cruises joined Royal Caribbean Cruises in 1997 and Pullmantur Cruises followed in 2006. The ship was handed over by Celebrity Cruises to the Spanish market leader Pullmantur Cruises on June 11, 2007. The Zenith also changed flag and home port to Valletta on Malta . In the year it was taken over by Pullmantur Cruises, the ship was modernized. Initially it was used for cruises on the Mediterranean.
After the ship was used for Croisières de France from 2014 , it returned to Pullmantur Cruises when it was closed in 2017.
In the summer of 2019, the ship was sold to the Japanese non-governmental organization Peace Boat. In 2020 the ship left the Pullmantur Cruises fleet and was subsequently renamed The Zenith .
Incidents
- In 2008 the ship caused an accident in the Greek port city of Piraeus. It hit the Greek cruise ship Aegean Pearl while docking , which resulted in a broken railing on the Aegean Pearl .
- On August 18, 2009, a fire broke out on board the Zenith . The ship was in the port of Stockholm and there were only 200 passengers on board, the others were on shore leave. Some crew members suffered smoke inhalation. The fire was quickly extinguished.
- On the night of April 27, 2010, striking dock workers blocked access to the port in Piraeus, Greece , so that many of the arriving passengers were unable to leave the ship and newly arriving passengers were initially unable to start their cruise.
- On June 25, 2013, fire broke out in the engine room on board near the Italian city of Chioggia . No one was injured by the passengers or the crew. The ship had to be towed into the port of Venice.
Technical specifications
The ship is powered by two Neunzylinder- and two six-cylinder - diesel engines from MAN driven (types: 9L 40/54 / 6L 40/54). The motors act on two variable pitch propellers via reduction gears . Three generators are available for generating electricity, which are driven by MAN diesel engines (type: 6L 40/54). An emergency generator was also installed. The ship is equipped with two bow thrusters and one stern thruster.
Literary
The American author David Foster Wallace went on a 7-day Caribbean cruise on this ship on behalf of Harper's Magazine in 1995 . His report was published in 1996 under the title Shipping Out in this magazine. An expanded version was published in 1997 as a book under the title A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again The German translation was published in 2002 under the title Terribly amusing - but in the future without me and from 2006 as a paperback. In the book the ship is ironically called Nadir after the correct name has been mentioned - cf. Zenith (directional information) and nadir (directional information) - and for the launch the year 1993 is given.
Web links
- Shipping company Pullmantur Cruises (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publications. Meyer-Werft, accessed on February 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Zenith ( Memento of April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Croisières de France.
- ↑ Croisières de France is dissolved: Pullmantur takes over Horizon and Zenith. Ships and Cruises, December 12, 2016, accessed August 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Zenith Will Sail for Peace Boat. Cruise Industry News, July 10, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=3122819
- ↑ a b Cruise ship evacuated due to fire . Spiegel Online , August 18, 2009; Retrieved June 19, 2011
- ↑ MS Zenith evacuated after fire . ET on Aug. 18, 2009; Retrieved June 19, 2011
- ^ Franz Neumeier: Striking Greeks block cruise ship in Piraeus ( Memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Cruisetricks, April 28, 2010.
- ↑ Cruise ship with over 2,200 people stranded off Venice . derstandard.at, June 25, 2013
- ↑ Little, Brown and Company, New York
- ^ Translated by Marcus Ingendaay , Marebuch, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-936384-00-2
- ^ Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-442-54229-1