Celebrity Eclipse Makes First Appearance
The third in Celebrity Cruises' $3.7b Solstice Class fleet, Celebrity Eclipse emerged for the first time from the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany on Feb. 28. Celebrity Eclipse will enter service April 26 and, following two short break cruises, will offer a series of Canary Islands, Scandinavia/Russia and Spanish Mediterranean sailings roundtrip from Southampton, England. The new vessel will present Caribbean cruises roundtrip from Miami beginning in November. (www.celebritycruises.com)
For Oil or Tuna, One Design Can Do It All
Commercial diver John Template likes to have boats built and he doesn’t much mind whether he operates them or sells them. This May he will take delivery of the second of a two-boat order from A&B Industries. The sister ships were built as 120- x 32-ft. with a molded depth of 12 ft. They are USCG inspected class “L” with ABS Loadline only under 100 gt. Designed for versatility in serving a variety of functions in support of the oil industry, the boats have 76- x 24-ft. clear aft decks capable of handling 126 tons of deck cargo. Tankage, including 50,000 gallons of fuel and 12,940 gallons of potable water, equips the boats for conventional off shore supply vessel support to drilling and production rigs Water ballast tanks have a capacity of 18…