Name/Title
Holland America Line- SS Rotterdam-Folder #1Entry/Object ID
K0001.67.12Scope and Content
This folder consists of eight items:
1.NASM News: "Her Majesty Queen Juliana Launches the Rotterdam": Single, folded glossy b&w page. Folded and printed in Journal-style. Dated October, 1958. Features articles about the launch of the SS Rotterdam. Many small b&w photos of launch, and modelmaking. Small advert for inaugural cruise featured.
2. NASM News: "Rotterdam's Main Engines Installed; Outfitting of Giant Liner on Schedule" and "Kamperdyk launched, Korendyk's First Keeplate Laid; Dutch ask German Trade": Single, folded glossy b&w page. Folded and printed in Journal-style. Dated February 1959. General news periodical for the NASM, (Holland America). Details outfitting of the SS Rotterdam, dockside, in Rotterdam.
3.Facts and Figures, SS Rotterdam: Multi-page stapled booklet. B&W, undated, but ca. 1960. Provides general information about the ship Rotterdam, including physical specifications, dates and details of maiden voyage, construction, launch etc, and lists designers of each area of the ship's interior.
4.Cruise Plan of the Flagship Rotterdam: Multi-page stapled and folded booklet, color, dated Oct. 1960. Deck plans for the SS Rotterdam. Photos of accommodations and ammennities provided.
5.Vacation Time Summer Cruise to South America, Sailing from New York, July 6, SS "Rotterdam", 53 Days $500 up, 15 Ports of Call: Single, folded bicolor page, brochure. Dated 1939. Provides, port info, itinerary, rates of fare, deck plans and general information for a 53-day South American cruise aboard the SS Rotterdam, under charter to Thos. Cook and Son Wagons-Lits Inc. Features b&w photos of shipboard activities and ports of call.
6. SS Rotterdam, Pride of the Spotless Fleet: Single, folded chart-sized page, tricolor, dated 1937. Deck plans for the Rotterdam.
7.Cool Summer Cruises in the Holland-America SS Rotterdam: Single, folded page booklet, bicolor, dated June 1935. Provides sailing dates, rates of fare, deckplans and general information for 13 day Canadian/Bermudan cruises and 13 day South American/West Indies cruises aboard the SS Rotterdam.
8.First and Second Class Plan of Twinscrew Steamer Rotterdam: Undated, (ca. 1930s) single, folded chart-sized page. Deck plans for the SS Rotterdam, and accommodation plans for first and second class passengers.Collection
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