General Question about History of Norwegian Jade

[CruiseAdict218]

I don't know where else to post so why not right here, its not about a Cruise or her interior its about when she was the Pride of Hawaii and then withdrawn to become Norwegian Jade. Can she sail in the US waters under her current name? I thought I read she could because the way she was built, it sounds strange but just curious

[bakerintn]

I don't know where else to post so why not right here, its not about a Cruise or her interior its about when she was the Pride of Hawaii and then withdrawn to become Norwegian Jade. Can she sail in the US waters under her current name? I thought I read she could because the way she was built, it sounds strange but just curious

 

Here is a link with some good info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Jade

 

The Jade was built in Germany although originally it was to have been built in the U.S. As the Pride of Hawaii, it was a U.S. flagged cruise ship, the largest ever. As the Jade, it is a Bahamas-flagged ship and therefore falls under the rules and regulations of all foreign-flagged ships; as such, it cannot travel exclusively between U.S. ports..there must be foreign ports involved too. I don't think that a ship's name has anything to do with U.S. laws or its rights in the U.S.....it is the country of registry that seems to matter.

[Globaliser]

Can she sail in the US waters under her current name?

As bakerintn says, basically she can do so in exactly the same way as virtually all of the other big cruise ships, both NCL and non-NCL. There is nothing special about her any more in this respect.

 

The only big ship that is special in this way is Pride of America, which can sail exclusively between different US ports because she is US-registered. But such registration comes with a lot of operational "baggage", which is why both her operations and her economics are very different from those of conventional big cruise ships.

[Azure Moon]

Several posts in the following thread - http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1221201&highlight - helped me the most in understanding PoH/Jade's situation.

[CruiseAdict218]

Thanks, idk why I thought that i knew it wasnt the name, I though b/c she was some what built in an american company then being reflagged under a foreign flag she couldn't sail around the US only in other countries