Dubbeldam (ship)
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The Dubbeldam was a passenger ship put into service in 1891 by the Dutch shipping company Holland-America Line , which was used as a transatlantic liner on the North Atlantic and carried passengers , freight and mail from Rotterdam to South America and later to Baltimore . In 1895 the ship was sold to the British Red Cross Line and renamed Madeirense . It sank on July 28, 1912 at Crooked Iceland ( Bahamas ).
The ship
In 1888 the Holland-America Line opened a new liner service from Rotterdam to Brazil and to the Río de la Plata and for this reason ordered two new ships intended to cover this route, the Dubbeldam (2,760 GRT) and the Didam ( 2,751 GRT). Until the completion of the two ships, older ships of the shipping company operated the route. However, since the Baring Crisis of 1890 severely affected trade and immigration to South America , the HAL deviated from its original plan and only put the Didam on the South America route. The Dubbeldam instead sailed the traditional North Atlantic route.
Consisting of steel -built steamship Dubbeldam was on the shipyard Bonn & Mees in Rotterdam built and launched on 23 April 1891 from the stack. Godmother was the daughter of Otto Reuchlin , one of the directors of the shipping company. The Dubbeldam was a 104.54 meter long and 12.19 meter wide passenger and cargo ship, which was provided with two decks , two masts and a chimney.
The three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine drove a single propeller and was able to ensure a speed of 12 knots. The machine output was 2100 PSi . The ship could carry 40 travelers in first and 468 in third class.
The Dubbeldam sailed from Amsterdam to Baltimore on April 26, 1891 on her maiden voyage . Later Rotterdam was the starting point of the trips. Together with the Didam , the Dubbeldam was sold in September 1895 for 58,000 pounds sterling to the Red Cross Line (Robert Singlehurst & Company), founded in 1869, and sailed for them as Madeirense (the Didam was named Santarense ). This sale financed the construction of the new Rotterdam (III) from 1897. In 1901 there was another change of ownership when the Red Cross Line merged with the Booth Line .
In later years the ship changed hands again, including in 1910 to Haakon B. Sørensen in Bergen and 1911 to the A / S Cuneo Steamship Company (owner SL Christie), also Bergen. On July 28, 1912, the Madeirense ran aground during a crossing from New York to Port Antonio at the Bird Rock lighthouse on the coast of Crooked Island (Bahamas). She had passengers and cargo on board. There were no fatalities, but the ship was a total loss .