''Celebrity Silhouette'' is a operated by

Celebrity Cruises Celebrity Cruises is a cruise line headquartered in Miami, Florida and a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group. Celebrity Cruises was founded in 1988 by the Greece-based Chandris Group, and merged with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in 19 ...

, a subsidiary of

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. She was ordered with German shipbuilder

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in May 2007 and was delivered in July 2011 as the fourth ''Solstice''-class ship in the fleet.

Design

''Celebrity Silhouette'' is built to the same design as her preceding three ''Solstice''-class sister ships (''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''), but measures approximately 400 tons larger and six feet longer. The -vessel is in

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and has a

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of . Upon completion, she had a capacity of 2,885 passengers.

Construction

In May 2007, Celebrity Cruises announced it had ordered its fourth ''Solstice''-class ship with German shipbuilder

for a tentative fall 2011 debut. The ship was estimated to cost around per berth, or roughly . The vessel's name, ''Celebrity Silhouette'', was announced on 21 December 2009. On 29 May 2011, the ship was floated out from the Meyer Werft shipyard in

Papenburg Papenburg (; East Frisian Low Saxon: ''Papenbörg'') is a city in the district of Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany, situated at the river Ems. It is known for its large shipyard, the Meyer-Werft, which specializes in building cruise liners. Geog ...

, and was delivered to Celebrity Cruises on 18 July 2011. She sailed to

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for her naming ceremony on 21 July 2011, where Michelle Morgan, president and CEO of Signature Travel Network, christened the vessel.

Service history

On 23 July 2011, ''Celebrity Silhouette'' embarked on her maiden voyage to

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, where she operated

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voyages for her maiden summer season. She moved in fall 2011 to the

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, where she operated 12-night

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itineraries to complete her inaugural year. ''Celebrity Silhouette'' has since been homeported at

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during the winters, sailing a variety of Caribbean itineraries, and has been deployed to

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in the summers for sailings around

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and the Mediterranean.

Gallery

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References

External links

Official website
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Silhouette A silhouette ( , ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhou ...

2011 ships Ships built in Papenburg