Celebrity Meridian

[martelcruiser]

Does anyone know whatever happened to the Celebrity Meridian? My wife and I met for the first time on her back in 1995. We went back together (as an engaged couple) back in 1996 and have been hooked to cruising ever since (Celebrity only! ;)). She was an old ship at the time, much older now :D, but we loved her! We have an obvious attachment to that ship, but looking in recent cruise ship-review books, I have been unable to find her. I heard that she was sold right around the last time we sailed on her.

 

Does anyone know whatever happened to this wonderful ship? I fear it was scrapped but I just don't know.

 

Thanks a-bunch!

 

-Guilliam

[asavet63]

Does anyone know whatever happened to the Celebrity Meridian? My wife and I met for the first time on her back in 1995. We went back together (as an engaged couple) back in 1996 and have been hooked to cruising ever since (Celebrity only! ;)). She was an old ship at the time, much older now :D, but we loved her! We have an obvious attachment to that ship, but looking in recent cruise ship-review books, I have been unable to find her. I heard that she was sold right around the last time we sailed on her.

 

Does anyone know whatever happened to this wonderful ship? I fear it was scrapped but I just don't know.

 

Thanks a-bunch!

 

-Guilliam

 

Try this site and go to the Celebrity pages:

 

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/

[Essiesmom]

Originally Galileo Galilei, her last incarnation was as Sun Vista for Sun Cruises out of Singapore (I think). She burned and sank in Asia around 1999. EM

[Atomica]

There's a whole Wikipedia page on her:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Meridian

 

She sank as Sun Vista on May 21, 1999 off the coast of Malaysia.

[SwissMyst]

I sailed her around the world from Genoa in 1977 when she was the Galileo - what a grand trip and little did I know how close she was to the end of her early career as an Italian flagship passenger liner. Grand itinerary: Genoa, Naples, Suez; Dijbouti; Mombasa; Durban; Freemantle; Melbourne; Sydney; Aucklan, Noumea, Papaeete, Acapulco, Panama, Curacao and back to Genoa. Anyone else remember the bon vivant Asst. purser Alessandro Talemo-Lamberti? When we passed her resting place as a dive site off Penang, I tossed out the Joker from my pack of Lloyd Triestino Galileo Galilei playing cards and hoped it floated back to her new home at the bottom of the sea.