SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1905)

For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named Nieuw Amsterdam.

SS Nieuw Amsterdam
History
Name	Nieuw Amsterdam
Owner	Holland America Line
Port of registry	Rotterdam
Route	Rotterdam, New York
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	366
Laid down	21 January 1904
Launched	28 September 1905
Completed	22 February 1906
Maiden voyage	7 April 1906
In service	6 March 1906
Out of service	27 October 1931
Identification	Radio call sign "MHB"
Fate	Scrapped February 1932
General characteristics
Tonnage	16,913 GRT
Length	187,68 m (615 ft)
Beam	20,88 m (68 ft)
Draught	10,8 m (35.6 ft)
Propulsion	Twin screw: 2 quadruple 4 cyl. steam engines: 10,800 ipk
Speed	16 kn (29.632 km/h)
Crew	305

SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a ship built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff. It was launched in 1905 and on April 7, 1906, made its first voyage to New York from Rotterdam.

The music room

The Nieuw Amsterdam was fitted with sails, but they were never deployed; it was the first quadruple expansion powered ship of the Holland America Line. In 1914, the ship brought almost 1,700 United States citizens back from Europe at the outbreak of World War I. In 1917 she took 2,300 Dutch seamen from the United States back to Holland. The ship was renovated in 1918 and overhauled in 1925 to a "cabin/tourist configuration". It became the first ship to bring immigrants to the large new Canadian immigration terminal Pier 21 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on March 8, 1928, and made 31 voyages to Pier 21 with Dutch immigrants before its retirement. The last transatlantic passenger trip was made from Rotterdam on October 2, 1931, for New York. Nieuw Amsterdam arrived in Japan in February 1932 where it was scrapped.