Potsdam
1900
(Rhenania GLR-17)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 12,606 tons
- Dimensions: 570 x 62 ft.
- Machinery: Steam triple expansion, twin screws = 15 knots
- Passengers: 2,292
- Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany, 1900
- Service: Built for Holland-America Line. Rotterdam-New York service. Sold
to Sweden and renamed Stockholm in 1915. Converted into Norwegian whale
factory Solglimt, 1928. Captured by German raider in Antarctic 1941 and
renamed Sonderburg. Scuttled at Cherbourg, Jun 1944 and scrapped later in U.K.
Sisters Ryndam and Noordam.
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