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American Symphony completes sea trials

9 August 2022

Guilford, Conn., based American Cruise Line’s latest modern riverboat, American Symphony, completed sea trials late last week and is on its way to New Orleans for an on-time start to its inaugural season on the Mississippi River.

American Cruise Lines reports that it accepted delivery of the vessel from Chesapeake Shipbuilding as scheduled. The ship is the fifth riverboat in the Line’s ground-breaking new series and the 15th small ship built by the Salisbury, Md., shipyard for American.

The...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/inland/american-symphony-completes-sea-trials/

VIDEO: River cruise vessel runs aground

9 July 2021

A riverboat cruise turned into somewhat of an adventure cruise yesterday when passengers found the vessel had gotten stuck on a sandbar near Barkley Bridge on Lake Barkley, Ky., during a seven-day voyage from Memphis to Nashville.

The Coast Guard was alerted to the incident yesterday when Sector Ohio Valley watchstanders received a call from American Cruise Lines reporting that its vessel American Jazz had run aground. A Coast Guard Station Paducah 29-foot Special Purpose Craft-Shallow Water...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/inland/video-river-cruise-vessel-runs-aground/

CDC extends no-sail order for cruise ships

3 May 202014 April 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has extended its no-sail order potentially cancelling cruises because of the coronavirus until early July.

The order issued late last week covers all overnight vessels with passenger and crew totals of 250 or more which affects some of the smaller U.S.-flag ships as well as the foreign-flag behemoths operating in “international, interstate, or intrastate waterways” subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

Cruise lines have already stopped cruising or...

https://www.workboat.com/news/passenger-vessels/cdc-extends-no-sail-order-for-cruise-ships/