American Classic Voyages

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American Classic Voyages was an American cruise line with headquarters in Chicago , which existed from 1993 and 2001.

history

The shipping company American Classic Voyages was founded in 1993 from the shipping companies Classic Voyages, the Delta Queen Steamboat Company and American Hawaii Cruises. The latter operated the cruise ships Independence and her sister Constitution . American Classic Voyages took over the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam of the Holland-America Line and ran it from 2000 as a Patriot under the brand name United States Lines in Hawaii as a stopgap for in the shipyard Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc. ordered newbuildings. In addition, the small cruise ships Cape May Light and Cape Cod Light were bought and used.

There was a contract with this shipyard in Mississippi to build two new ships for United States Lines under the name "Project America". The terrorist attacks in September 2001 caused a slump in the American cruise industry. American Classic Voyages went bankrupt about a month after the attacks and finally closed its doors in 2003. The half-finished new buildings remained at the shipyard. They were sold to Norwegian Cruise Line in 2002 . One of the two hulls became the Pride of America at Bremerhaven's Lloyd shipyard .

Individual evidence

1. ^ American Classic Voyages Co. , Private Company Information, Businessweek, Bloomberg.