After fires broke out twice at her yard, presumably due to short circuits , the Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was delivered to her shipping company in July 1926 under the hull number 256, reached IJmuiden for the first time on the 23rd of the month and was in liner service on the Amsterdam route until 1931 -Java.
Since the ship had proven to be too slow, despite the installation of the largest Sulzer diesel engines available at the time, it was extended in 1931, rebuilt and equipped with two more powerful Sulzer diesel engines. During the subsequent test drive, a boiler burst.
On November 13, 1932, the PC Hooft caught fire again during fumigation with hydrogen cyanide gas in Amsterdam. To prevent the flames from jumping over, the ship was towed out into the open water, where it burned for nine days. While the burned-out wreck was then towed to Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht for demolition , it almost capsized at first. At Pernis , the Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft ran aground, got into the hustle and bustle, only to catch fire and sink again in the scrapping yard . Then it could only be cut up after it had been pumped out. The ship was replaced by the Neptunia .
