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- United States Lines
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shows postcards and photographs of the 'new' United States Lines,
whose first cruise ship is the Patriot, was acquired in
2000. United States Lines is part of American Classic Voyages
Co, who also owned American
Hawaii Cruises
(who operated the SS Independence out of Kahului) and
the Delta Queen Steamboat Co (who operate three paddlewheel river
steamboats, plus two new vessels for the 2001 season). American
Hawaii Cruises and United States Lines filed for bankruptcy in
2001 following poor trading in the wake of the September 11th
terrorist attacks.
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Lines' Patriot was previously Holland America's Nieuw Amsterdam. Official postcards and photos of Patriot
have been added below. The Patriot can carry 1,212 passengers is
704 feet long and 33,930 gross tons. She operated the following seven day itinerary
out of Honolulu:-
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- United States Lines were
building two new 1900-passenger cruises ships, which would have
been the largest cruise ships ever built in the US. I do not
know their future following the bankruptcy of United States Lines.
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- Links on this Page:-
- Patriot
- Project
America
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- Links to Associated
Pages:-
- American
Hawaii Cruises
- American
Liner & Cruise Ship Postcards
- Cruise
Ship Postcards
- Ocean
Liner Postcards
- Simplon Postcards Home Page
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- Patriot
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Lines: 2000-2001)
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- Patriot was built as the Nieuw
Amsterdam in 1984 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in St Nazaire
for Holland America Line, subsequently part of Carnival Cruises
since 1989. Her sistership Noordam was introduced the
same year. She was sold in 2000 to American Classic Voyages as
the Patriot to start a new cruise line using the historic
name of United States Lines. This line folded in 2001 following
the September 11th terrorist attacks. Patriot was chartered
by Thomson
Cruises
from 2003 as the Thomson Spirit. A complete history of
this ship, including more photos as Patriot, is available
on
this link.
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- The
free-issue postcard of Patriot available on board.
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- This
postcard of Patriot is available for sale on board.
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following photos of patriot were taken by Marvin Jensen.
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photos of Patriot are available on this link.
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- Project America
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- Preliminary
drawing of the two 1900-passenger cruise ships which were under
construction by Ingalls for delivery in 2003.
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were to be 259 metres long, 72000 grt, and have a crew of 650.
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would have been the largest cruise ships ever built in the US.
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the collapse of US Lines, an uncompleted hull was bought for
completion in Germany for NCL.
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