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- United States Lines
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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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- United States 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. One was completd
for NCL as Pride of America.
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- Patriot
- Project
America
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- ssociated 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.
- They were to be
259 metres long, 72000 grt, and have a crew of 650.
- They would have
been the largest cruise ships ever built in the US.
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- Following the
collapse of US Lines, an uncompleted hull was bought for completion
in Germany for NCL.
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