Rotterdam (ship, 1908)
ROTTERDAM |
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| Ship data | ||
| Flag: |
 Netherlands
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| Ship type : | Passenger steamer | |
| Purpose: | transatlantic regular service | |
| Home port : | Rotterdam | |
| Builder : | Harland & Wolff ( Govan ) | |
| Shipping company : | Holland America Line | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Ship surveying : | 24,149 GRT | |
| Length over all: | 203 meters / 667 feet | |
| Width over everything: | 77 feet | |
| Max. Draft : | ||
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| Speed: | 17 knots | |
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| Chimneys: | 2 | |
| Masts: | 2 | |
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| Passengers | 520 in first grade, 555 in second grade, over 2000 in third grade | |
| Crew : | 472-600 | |
| Launch : | 1903 or 1908 | |
| Maiden voyage : | 1903 or 1908 | |
| Whereabouts: | Broken down in 1940 | |
The Rotterdam was a passenger ship of the Holland America Line .
From its commissioning to decommissioning, it traveled the route Rotterdam - New York ; the only exceptions were the war years 1916 to 1918. At times it was also used for cruises, for example in 1914 it was chartered for Clark's 16th Annual Cruise to the Mediterranean and the Orient , a 64- to 70-day luxury cruise . In a promotional brochure for this cruise, it was described as one the finest, largest and most popular ships crossing the Atlantic (one of the most beautiful, largest and most popular ships crossing the Atlantic ); its construction price was given as about 5 million dollars.
In 1939 the ship was decommissioned and in 1940 it was scrapped in the Netherlands.
Thomas and Katia Mann used the Rotterdam to return on their first voyage to America in 1934. They embarked on June 9, 1934 in New York. Albert Einstein made his first voyage to America from Rotterdam in 1921, also with this ship.
literature
- Thomas Mann, sea voyage with Don Quixote. With an overview and photographs of all of Thomas Mann's trips to the Atlantic , Frankfurt am Main (Fischer) 2002, ISBN 3-10-048513-0 , p. 11
