SS Volendam was a Dutch-owned transatlantic liner, launched in Scotland in 1922 and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1952. She was part of the first generation of turbine-powered steamships in the Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) fleet. Volendam and her sister ship Veendam were NASM's largest turbine steamships until the flagship Statendam was completed in 1929.
In the 1920s and 30s, Volendam spent most of her career on scheduled services between Rotterdam and Hoboken, New Jersey. She also operated seasonal cruises: mostly to the Caribbean, but occasionally to the Mediterranean, and to Norway. In the Second World War, she evacuated refugees from Europe, including children from Britain, until in 1940 she was damaged by two torpedoes.
In 1941 she returned to service as a troop ship. In 1947, she became an emigrant ship, at first carrying mostly Dutch emigrants. In 1948 she returned to transatlantic service, offering budget travel, which attracted US and Canadian students making their summer vacation in Europe. She was scrapped in 1952.
This was the first NASM ship to be named after the town of Volendam in North Holland. NASM next used the name in 1972, when it bought and renamed the turbine steamship Brasil.
SSVolendam was a Dutch-owned transatlantic liner, launched in Scotland in 1922 and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1952. She was part of the first generation...
fleet with that name, after SSVolendam (1922-1952) and SSVolendam (1972-1984). Built by Fincantieri, Italy in 1999, Volendam is a Rotterdam-class (R-class)...
1953. SS Veendam (III), 1972–74, 1975–76, 1978–84 — Last in service for Commodore Cruise Line as Enchanted Isle SS Veendijk 1914–33 SSVolendam (I), 1922–52...
22, 1940, having sailed from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, aboard the SSVolendam on February 10, 1940. On May 10, 1940, German troops invaded Luxembourg...
Times of 6 September 1940 broke the story about the child evacuee ship SSVolendam being torpedoed, and the rescued children from the ship being safely...
North America on the SS Antonia, where the two were reunited with Spira's mother, who had arrived in New York on the SSVolendam in February of that year...
Bombay on the liner SS Champollion, which they reached on 1 April. Other units sailed from Casablanca on the Dutch liner SSVolendam on 22 February, and...
a town in Edam-Volendam, after which the cheese is named Edam-Volendam, Dutch municipality that includes towns of Edam and Volendam Edam, Saskatchewan...
March 3, 2016. Passenger list of the S.S. Volendam, port of New York, 21 September 1939. Passenger list of the S.S. Mauretania, port of New York, 15 October...
Southampton for New York on 19 December 1939 on the Holland America Line's SSVolendam. While in the US, her views on British rule were criticised by the prominent...
However, he decided to return to Australia, arriving in Sydney on the SSVolendam in January 1949, aged 27.[citation needed] Couvret eventually settled...
occupied Europe to the Netherlands alone where he was to pick up the SSVolendam to the United States. The Germans invaded the Netherlands only a month...
U-boat attack on Volendam, which had been carrying 321 CORB children, 31 escorts, 255 other passengers, and 273 crew. U-60 hit Volendam with two torpedoes...
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