Potsdam
1900
(Rhenania GLR-17)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 12,606 tons
- Dimensions: 570 x 62 ft.
- Machinery: Steam triple expansion, twin screw, 7,600 IHP = 15 knots
- Passengers: 2,292 (282 first class, 210 second class, 1,800 steerage)
- Crew: 248
- Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany, 1900
- Service: Built for Holland-America Line. Rotterdam-New York service. Maiden voyage 5 May 1900. Funnel lengthened by 23 feet in 1901 to improved draught. Sold in Sep 1915
to Rederie Sverige Nordamerika (Swedish-American Line in 1925) and renamed Stockholm; maiden voyage 11 Dec Gothenburg-New York. Converted to oil-firing 1922 at Götaverken; funnel shortened, 12,835 GRT. Sold Nov 1928 to Hvalfangstakjeselskapet Atlas (C. Nielsen & Co) Larvik, Norway, for conversion to whale factory Solglimt. In service 12 Sep 1929. Resold to A/S Odde Sandefjord 1930. Captured by German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin in Antarctic 14 Jan 1941 and sent to Bordeaux as prize. Taken over by Erste Deutsche Walfanggesellschaft under the German flag and renamed Sonderburg. Scuttled at Cherbourg, 15 Jun 1944; raised in Jan 1947 and scrapped in U.K.
Sisters Ryndam (1901) and Noordam (1902) both built at Harland & Wolff..
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