In this identical period, the number of cruise ships plying worldwide waters increased from 97 to a hundred and seventy, and the number of cruise ship berths nearly doubled from sixty eight,474 to 127,943. Nineteen new cruise vessels were delivered in 2002, to be adopted by one other twenty-one new vessels by 2004 (CLIA, 2000; McDowell). Although some ocean liners had been constructed within the United States within the late 1800s and early 1900s, most cruise ships have been and proceed to be in-built Europe and Japan.
- In 1867, the paddle steamer Quaker City embarked on the first American-origin cruise