The Volendam was a turbine ship operated by the Holland America Line . She sailed the world's oceans from 1922 to 1952. With its black hull and sloping bow, it looked like a scaled-down Titanic . It had two chimneys and a boom each in front and behind.
The passenger ship was in 1922 Harland & Wolff in Govan built and from July 6, 1922 left stack . On November 4, 1922, he began his first trip. After a renovation in 1928, it offered space for 1175 passengers, 263 of them in first class. In April 1929 there was a collision between the Volendam and the German passenger ship Gillhausen in the Rotterdam New Waterway , which both ran aground. Only when the tide started did they go to the port of Rotterdam on their own, where they could be repaired. In April 1940, the Volendam completed her last transatlantic voyage in normal regular service during the Second World War . On August 30 of the same year she was torpedoed by the German submarine U 60 on a trip to Canada with evacuated children on board , but was able to get to the Isle of Bute and be repaired. From 1941 the Volendam served as a troop transport. In 1945 she returned to Rotterdam and in 1946 she brought Dutch troops to Indonesia . In 1947 she was used as an emigration ship on the route to Australia . Later, the Volendam operated again on its traditional route between Rotterdam and New York or Rotterdam and Québec . It was scrapped in 1952.
Sea trip with Don Quixote
In 1934 Thomas and Katia Mann made their first trip to America on the Volendam . They embarked in Boulogne on May 19, 1934 and arrived in New York on the morning of May 29. During the crossing, Thomas Mann planned his sea voyage with Don Quixote , in which he reported, among other things, about life on board.
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
