SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1905)

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.[1]

The music room

Nieuw Amsterdam
History
Name:	Nieuw Amsterdam
Owner:	Holland America Line
Route:	Rotterdam, New York
Builder:	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number:	366
Launched:	28 September 1905
Completed:	22 February 1906
Maiden voyage:	7 April 1906
Fate:	Scrapped February 1932
General characteristics
Tonnage:	16,913 GRT

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 28, 1928, and made 31 voyages to Pier 21 with Dutch immigrants before its retirement.[2] 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.[1]