Yard number 639 Length 264 m Beam 32 m | Christened 27 October 1997 Launched 11 July 1997 Builder Meyer Werft | |
Name 1997–2008 Mercury
2008–2011 Celebrity Mercury
2011 onwards Mein Schiff 2 Owner 1997–2011 Celebrity Cruises
2011 onwards TUI Cruises Operator 1997–2011 Celebrity Cruises
2011 onwards TUI Cruises Port of registry 1997–2002 Panama City, Panama
2002–2008 Nassau, Bahamas
2008 onwards Valletta, Malta | ||
Ms mein schiff 2 cruise ship
Mein Schiff 2 (formerly MV Mercury and Celebrity Mercury) is the second of two Century-class cruise ships operated by TUI Cruises. Built for Celebrity Cruises at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, she was launched on 11 July 1997, and was christened and entered service as MV Mercury on 27 October 1997.
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In 2008, after some eleven years in operation as Mercury, she was renamed Celebrity Mercury. In 2011, she was transferred to the fleet of TUI Cruises, a joint venture between TUI AG and Celebrity Cruises' owner Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. At the same time, she was renamed Mein Schiff 2. Her sister ship Mein Schiff 1 is the former MV Galaxy, also previously operated by Celebrity Cruises.
History
On May 19, 2006, just prior to Mercury's planned departure for an Alaska cruise, Seattle-based inspectors from the U.S. Coast Guard arrested the captain of the Mercury for intoxication during a routine safety inspection. Celebrity Cruises arranged for a replacement, and fired the original captain.
During several cruises from Charleston, South Carolina to the eastern Caribbean in February 2010, the ship was struck with a major outbreak of norovirus, sickening nearly 500 people on board, out of a total of just over 1,800. According to Celebrity Cruises, those sickened were treated with over-the-counter medicine. Additionally, a doctor and two nurses joined the ship midway to assist with the outbreak.
TUI Cruises
In February 2011 Celebrity Mercury left Celebrity Cruises to be renovated by Imtech and join TUI Cruises' fleet as Mein Schiff 2, alongside Mein Schiff 1, her sister ship, the former Celebrity Galaxy. In May 2015, TUI Group announced that as part of their modernization strategy, TUI Cruises' Mein Schiff 1 and Mein Schiff 2 would be transferred to Thomson Cruises over the next few years.
