Millennium (ship)
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GTS Millennium is the flagship of the Millennium Class of cruise ship
Cruise ship
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s, operated by the Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity Cruises
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line. Her sister ships are Constellation
GTS Constellation
GTS Celebrity Constellation is a Millennium class cruise ship of Celebrity Cruises. She is the co-flagship of the Celebrity fleet, along with Century-class ship Century. She was originally named Constellation, but renamed in May 2007...
, Infinity
GTS Infinity
GTS Celebrity Infinity is a Millennium Class cruise ship owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises. She was launched in 2001 as Infinity, and renamed Celebrity Infinity in 2007...
, and Summit
GTS Summit
GTS Celebrity Summit is a Millennium class cruise ship owned an operated by Celebrity Cruises. She was built in 2001 by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France for Celebrity Cruises as GTS Summit...
.
She was built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Chantiers de l'Atlantique is part of the South Korean STX Shipbuilding Group and one of the world's largest shipyards, based in Saint-Nazaire, France...
in St. Nazaire, France
France
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. When launched in 2000, Millennium was the world's first ship to use a turbo-electric
Turbo-electric
A turbo-electric transmission uses electric generators to convert the mechanical energy of a turbine into electric energy and electric motors to convert it back into mechanical energy to power the driveshafts....
COGES
Combined gas and steam
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power plant.
Millennium has a restaurant which contains wooden panels originally used in the RMS Olympic
RMS Olympic
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(sister ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic
HMHS Britannic
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), 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
Athens
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, Greece
Greece
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, on September 11, 2001, and went into high-security lock-down upon receipt of news regarding the September 11 attacks in the USA. A Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity Cruises is a cruise line founded in 1988 by the Greek Chandris Group. In 1997, Celebrity Cruises Ltd. merged with Royal Caribbean International to become Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., which operates Celebrity, Royal Caribbean International, Azamara Club Cruises, Pullmantur Cruises and CDF...
-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.
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
Cabo San Lucas
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and San Diego.