Ryndam (ship, 1951)
 The Ryndam before its takeover in July 1951
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The Ryndam (also known as Rijndam ) was a passenger ship of the Dutch shipping company Holland-America Line that was put into service in 1951 and was in service in the transatlantic service until 1972. It was then sold under the name Atlas to the Greek shipping company Epirotiki Lines and, after extensive conversion work, used for cruises . In the following years it changed name and owner several times and was last since 1993 under the name Copa Casino as a floating casino in Gulfport . On the way to the demolition, the ship sank on March 16, 2003 off the coast of the Dominican Republic .
history
The Ryndam was on 17 December 1949, the hull number 732 at Wilton Fijenoord in Schiedam on down Kiel and from the Feb. 19, 1950 left stack . Originally it was supposed to be called Dinteldyk . The ship was officially christened Rijndam according to the Dutch spelling , while the spelling later became established as Ryndam . It was the second unit of the shipping company of that name. Two more Holland America ships were later named Ryndam . After delivery to the Holland America Line on July 15, 1951, the ship was put into service on the following day on the route from Rotterdam via Le Havre and Southampton to North America. In addition to the liner service, it was also used for cruises to Australia between November 1964 and January 1965 .
In September 1966 the Ryndam was sold to the Europa-Canada line based in Bremen and from then on used between Bremerhaven and New York . However, it was sold again in August 1967 and taken over by the Scheepvaart Maatschappij Trans-Oceaan under the name Waterman . In October 1968 the ship returned under its old name Ryndam in the liner and cruise service for Holland America.
On June 1, 1971, was Ryndam Holland-America and retired in Schiedam launched . After a year of layover, the Greek shipping company Epirotiki Lines took over the ship under the name Atlas and had it converted into a pure cruise ship. Due to the radical renovation, which not only included the superstructure, but also the chimney and the bow, the Atlas no longer had any similarities with the former Ryndam . In May 1973 the Atlas was commissioned for travel in the Mediterranean . From 1974 she also sailed the Caribbean and the North Sea . Since 1978 it has been in service between Southampton and the Canary Islands .
Between April and November 1986 the ship was laid up in Eleusis , but was then used again until 1988. After its final retirement, it went under the name Pride of Mississippi to the Pride Cruise Line, from which it was transferred to the United States in December 1988 . In 1991 it was renamed the Pride of Galveston after a three-year layover , but was not put back into service. Instead, it was towed to Gulfport, Mississippi in 1993 and used there as a floating casino under the name Copa Casino .
In 2002 the casino was closed. The Copa Casino was taken over by the Atlantic Marine Shipyard in Mobile and sold to India for demolition on February 13, 2003 . On March 3, 2003, the ship began her last voyage in tow of the Fairplay XIV . However, it never made it to India as it sank off the Dominican Republic on March 16, 2003. The wreck lies at a depth of 2500 meters.
The sister ship the Ryndam was commissioned in 1952 Maasdam , which later under the name Stefan Batory was in use, and in 2000 Turkey was scrapped.
Web links
- Entry about the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- History of Ryndam and Maasdam on ssmaritime.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Neumeier: The next Holland America Line ship will be called "Ryndam". In: cruisetricks.de. April 8, 2019, accessed June 17, 2020 .