Celebrity Millennium
Celebrity Cruises · Cruise · In service · built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Celebrity Millennium entered service in 2000 as the lead of four gas-turbine-powered ships, and remains the fleet's oldest ocean-going vessel.
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How big is it, really?
The Celebrity Millennium's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
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The numbers
| Length overall | 294 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 32 m |
| Draft | 8 m |
| Gross tonnage | ≈90,280 GT |
| Passengers | ≈2,138 (double) |
| Crew | ≈999 |
| Decks | 12 |
| Installed power | 2 × GE gas turbines, 50,000 kW combined |
| Propulsion | 2 × 19 MW Mermaid azimuth pods |
| Entered service | June 2000 |
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What makes it different
Celebrity Millennium is the oldest ocean-going ship in the fleet and the lead of a class that made a bet almost nobody else made: gas turbines instead of diesel engines.
Two General Electric turbines drive the electrical plant, feeding a pair of 19 MW Mermaid azimuth pods. The turbines are lighter, cleaner and much quieter than medium-speed diesels; they are also considerably more expensive to run on marine fuel, and the pods proved troublesome enough across all four ships that the arrangement was never repeated by the line.
She was rebuilt in 2019 under the Revolution programme — new staterooms, a new suite complex, reworked public rooms — which is why a ship approaching thirty years old still sells at premium prices. At 294 metres she also reaches ports the Edge class cannot, which is increasingly the argument for keeping her.
The Celebrity Millennium line
Millennium class
Gas turbine power
Who operates the Celebrity Millennium
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
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