MV Zenith
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Zenith |
| Owner: | 1992-2007: Celebrity Cruises 2007-present: Pullmantur Cruises |
| Operator: | 1992-2007: Celebrity Cruises 2007-present: Pullmantur Cruises |
| Port of Registry: | 1992-2002: Monrovia,  Liberia2002-present: Nassau,  Bahamas[1] |
| Builder: | Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany |
| Yard number: | 620[1] |
| Acquired: | February 1992[1] |
| In service: | 4 April 1990[1] |
| Status: | In service |
| Notes: | Sister ship to Island Star |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Horizon class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 47255 GT (gross tonnage) |
| Displacement: | 4300 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) |
| Length: | 208.00 m (682.41 ft) |
| Beam: | 29.00 m (95.14 ft) |
| Draught: | 7.20 m (23.62 ft) |
| Installed power: | 2 × 9L40/54 MAN-B&W diesels 2 × L40/54 MAN-B&W diesels combined 19 960 kW |
| Speed: | 21,5 knots |
| Capacity: | 1774 passengers |
| Crew: | 670[citation needed] |
MV Zenith is a cruise ship owned by the Spain-based shipping company Pullmantur Cruises. She was built in 1992 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany for Celebrity Cruises.
The Zenith was built as a sister ship to Celebrity Cruises' first newbuild MV Horizon. The Zenith was delivered in February 1992 and set under Liberian flag. She was used for cruises from Florida to the Caribbean and Bermuda islands. In 2002 she was reflagged in the Bahamas. In 2007 she was transferred to Pullmantur Cruises and used for cruises around the Mediterranean.
[edit] Trivia
The Zenith was shown briefly at the end of the 1992 film Captain Ron.
A 7-Night Cruise aboard the Zenith is the subject of David Foster Wallace's 1995 essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (collected in a collection of the same name and originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out"). Wallace refers to the Zenith as the Nadir throughout.
