SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM DUTCH
FULLY BUILT AND READY TO DISPLAY MUSEUM QUALITY SHIP MODEL
- BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM QUALITY MODEL
- Open die cut side hull windows, NOT painted like those built by most other companies.
- Dimension Approx.: 36.5″L x 4.75″W x 12″H
- The model is 100% hand built by artisans from scratch
- Hand-painted to match the actual ship.
- Approximately 1:250 scale
- The model is already built, NOT a model ship kit
SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM DUTCH
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch transatlantic ocean liner that was built in 1938 and scrapped in 1974. She was the second Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) ship to be named after the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now New York. Proudly she was dubbed the Dutch " Ship of peace" since no provisions for possible was use incorporated in her design.
When new, Nieuw Amsterdam was the largest and swiftest ship in NASM's fleet, the largest ship in the Dutch merchant fleet, and the largest ship ever built in the Netherlands. She succeeded Statendam as NASM's flagship. She was the Netherlands' "ship of state", just as Normandie was for France, Queen Mary was for the United Kingdom, and Rex was for Italy.
Her peacetime career, both before and after the Second World War, was seasonal. She made transatlantic crossings between Rotterdam and Hoboken, New Jersey from about April to December, and cruises from about December to April. She cruised from NASM's terminal in Hoboken, mostly to the Caribbean. She twice cruised around South America: the first time early in 1939, and the second time early in 1950.
From 1940 to 1946 Nieuw Amsterdam was an Allied troopship. She served mostly in and around the Indian Ocean, but also in the Atlantic, and occasionally in the Pacific.
By 1977 she had started cruising from Port Everglades, Florida. In 1971 she ceased scheduled transatlantic services and was employed solely for cruising. She was withdrawn at the end of 1978, and scrapped in Taiwan in 1974.
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