Ship Stats

Shipyard:                      Lloyd Werft, Bremerhaven, Germany

Entered Service:             June 2005

Gross Tonnage:             81,000

Length:                         920.6 feet

Breadth:                       105.6 feet

Draft:                            26.0 feet

Cruise Speed                21.8 knots

Engines:                        Diesel electric

Auxiliary Power: Azipod Propulsion with diesel power plant

Crew:                           800 – All American

Registry:                       USA

Guest Decks:                13

Guest Capacity:             2,138 double occupancy

Guest Cabins:               1,069

Restaurants:                  8

Air-Conditioning:             Vessel completely air-conditioned; each stateroom equipped with individual thermostat controls.

Medical Facilities: There is a round-the-clock medical facility available staffed by two nurses and a physician. Fees are charged for services.

Smoking: Smoking is permitted only in specially designated areas usually off a public lounge. It is not permitted in the indoor restaurants, show lounge, and conference facilities. Cigar and pipe smoking are only allowed in Pink’s Cigar Lounge on Deck 6 and on outside decks.

Tipping: Tipping is not required. A service charge of $10 per day per adult and $5 per day for a child ages 3 to 12 is added to the passenger’s onboard bill.

Golf Program: Since Pride will be positioned in Hawaii, NCL offers a comprehensive shoreside golf program complete with a golf pro shop at sea. Guests can tee up with NCL’s Golf Hawaii program that offers 18-hole golf packages for championship courses on all four main islands including Koolau on Oahu, Poipu Bay and The Prince Course on Kauai; Mauna Lani Resort and Hapuna Golf Course on the Big Island of Hawaii and Kapalua and Wailea on Maui. Packages begin at $95 per person and include transportation to the golf course.

Itinerary: After a series of coastal sailings, Pride of America will arrive in her homeport of Honolulu on July 23, 2005 where she will begin sailing weeklong cruises to all four main islands of Hawaii.  The seven-day cruises from Honolulu will feature a day in Hilo, Hawaii; two days in Kahului, Maui; a day in Kona, Hawaii; and two days in Nawiliwili, Kauai. In 2006, there will be three cruises between the US West Coast and Hawaii.

Ship History: Pride had a past before she was formally christened. Her history begins in the late 1990s at the Pascagoula Mississippi shipyard where she was originally being built.

Started by the now defunct American Classic Voyages in 1999, which went bankrupt in post 9/11 2001, the ship languished until in 2002 when NCL purchased the partially completed ship from the US Maritime Administration and had the vessel towed to the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven.

Just three months before the ship’s completion in 2004—she was slated to be the first US-flagged ship sailing in Hawaii— a violent storm partially sank the vessel at dockside in January. Sea water flooded the bottom three decks but spared the passenger decks, which were still above water. After several weeks of preparation, the seawater was pumped from the ship, and she was refloated. However some of the work had to be redone.

Then the Lloyd Werft shipyard declared itself insolvent, further complicating repairs and completion of the vessel. Ultimately, the shipyard got through its difficult period. The ship’s mishap and the shipyard problems added more than a year to the construction process. Finally, this May, the completed ship was delivered to NCL America.

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