Pride of America
Pride of America docked in Honolulu, 2010 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Pride of America |
| Owner | Pride of America Ship Holding Inc. (NCL America) |
| Operator | NCL America |
| Port of registry | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Ordered | October 6, 1998 |
| Builder |
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| Yard number |
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| Laid down | October 10, 2000 |
| Launched | September 16, 2002 |
| Sponsored by | Elaine Chao |
| Christened | June 17, 2005 |
| Completed | June 7, 2005 |
| In service | 2005–present |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service |
| Notes | When docked can plugin to external power and turn-off engines |
| General characteristics (as designed) | |
| Tonnage | 80,439 GT |
| Length | 850 ft (260 m) |
| Height | 61 m (200 ft) |
| Capacity | 2,500 passengers |
| Notes | Purchased by NCL in 2001 as an unfinished vessel following the bankruptcy of American Classic Voyages. |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Tonnage | |
| Length |
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| Beam | 106 ft (32.2 m) |
| Height | 61 m (200 ft) |
| Draught | 26.2 ft (8.0 m) |
| Depth | 65.8 ft (20.07 m) |
| Decks | 15 |
| Installed power | 6 × Wärtsilä 8L46C (6 × 8,400 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 22.2 knots (41.1 km/h; 25.5 mph) |
| Capacity | 2,186 passengers |
| Crew | 927 |
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MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built (aside from the outfitting) deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.