Noordam (II)
1938
(Noordzee NZ-41)
- Type: Passenger/cargo
- Displacement: 10,726 tons
- Dimensions: 501-7 x 64-5 x 31-8 ft.
- Machinery: Burmeister & Wain diesels, twin screws, 13,000bhp = 17 knots
- Passengers: 125 (all tourist class)
- Builder: P. Smit, Jr. Shipbuilding, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1938
- Service: Built for Holland-America Line service between Rotterdam and New York. Maiden voyage 28 Sep 1938; first voyage New York-Java 13 Mar 1940. Noordam taken over as transport for American War Shipping Administration, Apr 1942.
Returned to commercial service Jul 1946 at 10,276 grt with accommodation for 48 passengers, all first class. Sold to Cielomar SA, Panama, in 1963; chartered to Messagieres Maritimes as the Oceanien. First voyage Marseille-Sydney 2 Aug. Scrapped at Split, Yugoslavia in 1967.
Sister ship Zaandam torpedoed off Brazil, Nov 1942.
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