Nieuw Amsterdam
1906
(Noordzee NZ-11)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 16,967 tons
- Dimensions: 615 x 68 ft.
- Machinery: Steam quadruple expansion, twin screw, 10,400 IHP = 16 knots
- Passengers: 2,886 (440 first class, 246 second class, 2,200 third class)
- Builder: Harland & Wolff, Limited, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1906
- Service: Built for Holland-America Line's Rotterdam-Channel ports-New York service. Last major liner to be fitted with auxiliary sails. Maiden voyage 7 Apr 1906. Alterations at H&W in 1910 change to 17,149 GRT with 443 first class, 379 second class, 2,050 third class. Altered again in 1926 to 300 first class, 860 tourist class. Broken up in Japan, 1932.
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