Pride of America - replacement or sister ships?

Thanks for the helpful information. We remember sailing on the Constitution and Independence ships.... around the Hawaiian islands... very enjoyable.

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I will disagree that shipyards are just assembling a few modules. Those "grand blocks" are assembled in the shipyard from blocks built in the shipyard. Building a ship in two years is not that incredible.

However, for a cruise ship, the cabin modules are generally built by subcontractors at sometimes great distances from the shipyard. This is the infrastructure China has to build.

As to Chinese built ships, Carnival is doing this (building in China), flagging in China, and creating a Chinese subsidiary, to get around China's version of the PVSA.

The Pride of America will be the next SS Norway of the fleet in terms of being the old Grandmother in the fleet. As long as they maintain her well with dry docks people will continue to go. With her being the only 7 day Hawaiian cruise she has zero competition and that ship is the CASH COW of the fleet. Shore excursions alone bring in more $$ than ships twice her size bring in with the casino and shore ex combined.

Right now the Pride of America is far from being the Grandma of the fleet, The Sky 1999, and Spirit 1998, and Dawn Class ships are older than she is.

But with the Pride being the only current U.S. Flagged ship, she could hold that honor.