Pride of America

Pride of America

Pride of America docked in Honolulu, 2010
History
United States
Name	Pride of America
Owner	Pride of America Ship Holding Inc.[1] (NCL America)[2]
Operator	NCL America
Port of registry	Honolulu, Hawaii
Ordered	October 6, 1998
Builder	Litton-Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi (hull) Lloyd Werft, Bremerhaven, Germany (outfitting)
Yard number	7671 (Litton-Ingalls) "Project America" (Lloyd Werft)[1]
Laid down	October 10, 2000[1]
Launched	September 16, 2002[1]
Sponsored by	Elaine Chao
Christened	June 17, 2005
Completed	June 7, 2005[1]
In service	2005–present
Identification	IMO number: 9209221 Call sign: WNBE MMSI number: 366994450[2]
Status	In service
General characteristics (as designed)
Tonnage	80,439 GT
Length	850 ft (260 m)
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)[1]
Tonnage	80,439 GT 50,632 NT 8,260 DWT
Length	921 ft (280.6 m) (overall) 845 ft (257.6 m) (between perpendiculars)
Beam	106 ft (32.2 m)
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)[3]
Propulsion	Two Rolls-Royce Mermaid pods (2 × 12.5 MW)[3] Three Rolls-Royce bow thrusters
Speed	22.2 knots (41.1 km/h; 25.5 mph)[3]
Capacity	2,186 passengers[4]
Crew	927

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.^[5]