Celebrity ships call in Bayonne at what’s technically called the Cape Liberty Cruise Port, one of three ocean-going passenger ports in the sixth boro.
This is a port surrounded by people known far and wide, and although I don’t look for celebrities, I’ve crossed paths with the likes of Al Sharpton in Penn Station one dawn on my way to work and Lou Reed on the westside esplanade a rainy weekend day, I suspect a celebrity must be on a vessel to merit a water display like this one last weekend as Norwegian Star exited the Narrows.
Then there are eye-catching yachts like this one. Actually at first glance I thought this one was Manhattan or Justice. But clearly, it had less sheer and more house.
Only when I got back home did I read the name S. S. Sophie and that it is or was the 1947 Trumpy owned by Greta van Susteren. I know she’s “a celebrity,” but as a non-consumer of TV news, I’ve no idea what her voice sounds like. And the S. S. ? steam? Nope.
Springer spaniel, the owner’s dog . . . if you read that link embedded in the 1947 Trumpy above. Here and here are tugster posts with yachts by Trumpy. Here’s a foto taken from the deck of Scanaro’s Manhattan.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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October 2, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Anonymous
That Celebrity Summit is one ugly ass looking cruise ship!
October 2, 2012 at 9:26 pm
tugster
anon– i concur about celebrity and its appreance, but it seemed the perfect entree into the ss sophia pics.
October 3, 2012 at 1:13 am
Harold E. Tartell
They’re ugly looking on the outside, but quite nice on the inside. The one pictured is CELEBRITY SUMMIT. I took a 9 day cruise on sister ship CONSTELLATION back in 2005 from Cape Liberty. There are four ships of this Millennium class. The CELEBRITY prefix was added onto all of them a couple of years ago. CELEBRITY SUMMIT, CELEBRITY CONSTELLATION, CELEBRITY INFINITY, & CELEBRITY MILLENNIUM. By far the ugliest looking cruise ship afloat is NORWEGIAN EPIC http://www.shipparade.com/az/Norwegian_Epic/Norwegian_Epic_2.htm. These Celebrity ships are beauty queens compared to that one.
August 7, 2013 at 4:52 pm
celebrities
You are so cool! I do not think I’ve truly read through anything like this before. So great to find somebody with original thoughts on this issue. Seriously.. thanks for starting this up. This website is something that is required on the internet, someone with some originality!