''Queen of the Mississippi'' is an overnight riverboat being built by

American Cruise Lines ''American Cruise Lines, Inc.'' is a small-ship cruise line with its headquarters in Guilford, Connecticut, United States. The line operates thirteen small List of U.S. flagged cruise ships, U.S. flagged cruise ships along the East Coast of the U ...

(ACL) at

Chesapeake Shipbuilding Chesapeake Shipbuilding is a shipbuilding company, based in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, since 1980, on the site of the former Roberts Shipyard. They are capable of constructing vessels up to 450 feet in length on the 13 acre yard. The yard ...

Salisbury, Maryland Salisbury () is a city in and the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States, and the largest city in Eastern Shore of Maryland, the state's Eastern Shore region. The population was 33,050 at the 2020 United ...

for overnight river cruising on the

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

, and

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rivers in the United States. This riverboat was announced to assume the ''Queen of the Mississippi'' name after the previous ship was repositioned to the

Columbia River The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, C ...

and renamed in early 2016. However, the American Eagle quietly assumed the name in 2016 without clarification of whether this vessel will become ''Queen of the Mississippi'' in 2017 or sail under a different name.

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Official website
2017 ships Cruise ships of the United States Ships built in Salisbury, Maryland