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Cruise & Ferry Shipping Report Melding The Old Fith The New

It's a timeless piece of history that is the newest deal going on in the cruise ship industry — the deal between the

Delta Queen Steamboat Co. and

Atlantic Marine, which calls for the building of two U.S. Coastal flag ships inspired by the former Fall River Line

Vessels which ran from 1847 to 1937.

By Regina P. Ciardiello, assistant editor

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Circle 224 on Reader Service Card travel. Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers had not yet become household names and the horse and carriage reigned as the only means of getting to and fro. Aristocracy held court on ships that sailed the high seas — namely the Fall River

Line, which ran from

New York to New Eng- land. Inspired yet?

Executives at Delta

Queen were — so much that they decided to model their current project after the famed line.

The paddles began rolling about a year ago at Delta Queen, when visions of the idea were first discussed between

Philip Calian, presi- dent and CEO, Ameri- can Classic Voyages (Delta Queen's parent company); and Scott

Young, Delta Queen's president and COO. "Phil and I talked about ways in which we could expand the company," said Young. "When we realized that the cost to design a his- toric vessel would remain the same, we decided to go that way." "We thought about how we could further our marketing and product expertise," Calian said. "The

Delta Queen project both meets the needs of the market in a cost-effective manner and plays off American history and culture."

Young and his team at Delta Queen spent the next few months working with the Marine Museum in Fall River,

Mass., examining photos and drawings of the steamers on which the new Delta

Queen is based. "We looked at the various river steam- ers so that we could come as close as we could in designing a historic vessel with modern amenities," Young added.

With a design and itinerary ideas in place, Delta Queen began its quest for history in the making on May 7, 1999 — with the naming of Jacksonville, Fl.- based Atlantic Marine as the builder of the first two 300-ft. (91.4 m), 226 pas- senger vessels at a base price of $30 mil- lion each, with launchings scheduled in the spring and summer of 2001.

With the bidding process commencing when 16 invitations were sent out by

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

From top, Philip C.

Calian, president and CEO of AMCV;

Scott Young, exec utive vice president,

AMCV; and Edward

P. Doherty, presi- dent, Atlantic

Marine, Inc. have helped to bolster cruise vessel new- building in the U.S.