Noordam (ship, 1902)
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The Noordam (I) was a passenger ship put into service in 1902 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 New York . Between 1923 and 1926 the ship was in service under the name Kungsholm (I) for Svenska Amerika Linien until it was called Noordam again from 1926 and was scrapped in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht (Netherlands) in 1928 .
The ship
The 12,531 GRT, steel- built steamship Noordam was built at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland for Holland-America Line and was launched on September 28, 1901. She was the shipping company's first ship with this name. The Noordam was a 167.63 meter long and 18.98 meter wide passenger ship with a funnel, two masts and two propellers . She was the sister ship of the Rijndam (I) (12,527 GRT), also built by Harland & Wolff , which entered service in October 1901.
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The Noordam , like the Rijndam, was powered by two six-cylinder triple expansion steam engines from Harland & Wolff, which developed 8000 PSi ("indicated horsepower") and enabled a speed of 15 knots. 286 passengers could be accommodated in the first, 292 in the second and 1,800 in the third class. The ship had a total of four steel decks , a double bottom , ten watertight bulkheads and a radio for wireless telegraphy .
Mission history
On March 29, 1902, the Noordam completed her test voyage , and on May 1, 1902, she sailed from Rotterdam to New York on her maiden voyage . She stayed on this route for most of her entire service life. On April 14, 1912 at 11:40 a.m., the Noordam sent a warning that it was in position 42N., 49 to 51W. had hit ice. The message was forwarded by the Cunard Line's RMS Caronia to the Titanic , which collided with an iceberg that same day . The Noordam and its ice warning are mentioned in minute 73 of James Cameron's film Titanic (1997).
In contrast to the Rijndam , which was temporarily used as a troop transport , the Noordam remained in civilian passenger traffic during the First World War . On October 17, 1914, she ran into a sea mine in the North Sea (see Naval War ), but was able to be repaired and resumed its regular passenger service on March 26, 1915. On August 3, 1917, however, it was damaged again by contact with a mine near Terschelling and this time it was laid up in Rotterdam for the rest of the war. Only on March 9, 1919 did she leave for a crossing from Rotterdam via Plymouth and Brest to New York. Her last trip for the time being for the Holland America Line took place in January 1923.
She was then chartered to the Swedish America Line, which gave her the name Kungsholm and used her between March 1923 and November 1924 with space for 478 cabin passengers and 1,800 tween deck passengers on the route from Gothenburg via Halifax to New York. On October 6, 1926, it went back to its original owner, got its old name and from December 1926 commuted between Rotterdam and New York again (from now on only with third-class accommodation). On April 16, 1927, the Noordam began her last Atlantic crossing. In May 1928 it was scrapped at the NV Frank Rijsdijk's Industrieele Ondernemingen scrapping yard in the Dutch town of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht .