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My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

We have a review

of celebrity silhouette today from Scott and Kristen about their transatlantic voyage, exploring

the ship from top to bottom. Also, staff writer Richard Sims is here with Cruise News. Hello,

Richard. Hey, Doug Parker. So we kick things off with some bad news for one river cruise line.

Yeah, I don't know why I'm so sad about this story, but I am. The American Queen Voyages,

a cruise line that did a lot of river cruises, had formerly been the American steamboat company.

They had seven ships and they've gone out of business.

On Tuesday, words started spreading that effective immediately, all sailings were canceled.

This, you know, it can't really be considered a complete surprise given that over the past

few months they'd canceled some sailings due to ships needing maintenance,

but it was still likely a shock to employees and booked guests, most of whom got the news

via an email that was sent out that day. Based on what was said in some of the staff communications,

it seems clear that after being really hard hit by the shutdown,

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