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SS Rotterdam 

1959 cruise ship turned into museum and hotel
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Instance of	botel
Named after	Rotterdam
Location	Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Has use	museum ship botel
Yard number	300
Service entry	1959
Beam	28.7 m
Draft	9 m
Length	228.2 m
Speed	21.5 kn
Different from	SS Rotterdam
51° 53′ 52.01″ N, 4° 28′ 27.01″ E
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Ship edit

• Type: Passenger ship
• Design by:
• Order date: 26.10.1955
• Built by: N.V Rotterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij
• Yard No: 300
• Keel laid: 14.12.1956
• Launch date: 13.09.1958
• Engine trials at sea: 11/12.07.1959
• Technical trials: 01/06.08.1959
• Date of completion: 20.08.1959
• Length over all: 228.12 m
• LPP: 198.12 m
• Beam: 28.65 m
• Draught: 9 m
• BRT: 38645
• DWT: 31087
• NET: 21848
• Main engine: 2x3 Schelde Parsons Turbines, 38500 pk, 2 propellers at 135,5 rpm
• Speed: 21.5 kn

History edit

• 1959 Named: ROTTERDAM for N.V. Mailschip "Rotterdam", Rotterdam. (a 100% daughter of the "Holland-Amerika Lijn"). Flag: Netherlands
  • Callsign: PHEG
• 03.09.1959 Start maiden trip to New York
• 11.09.1959 Maiden arrival at New York
• 25.09.1965 Opening Gulf Oil at Europoort Rotterdam
• 26.09.1965 Refit
• 1968 Refit at Dok & Werf Maatschappij Wilton Feijenoord N.V, Schiedam
• 06.10.1971 Rotterdam no longer home-port
• 26.03.1973 Sold to N.V Rotterdam, Willemstad NA Flag: Netherlands Antilles
  • Callsign: PJSU
• 10.09.1973 Hull painted black
• 14.02.1977 Sold to Holland America Cruises, Willemstad NA
• 1982 Sold to Holland America Cruises Inc.
• 11.09.1989 Refit in Portland, bowscrew of 2600 pk
• 08.09.1997 Sold to Premier Cruise Lines Ltd. (Cruise Holdings Inc.), Nassau, Bahamas Flag: Bahamas
  • Callsign: C6PI4
• 30.09.1997 Arrived in Fort Lauderdale
• 03.10.1997 Renamed: REMBRANDT
• 2000 Laid up in Freeport, Bahamas
• 14.09.2000 Sold to Premier Cruises Renamed: BIG RED BOAT IV
• 05.2003 Sold to N.V Rotterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij/Stichting Behoud Stoomschip Rotterdam Renamed: ROTTERDAM
• 06.2004 Towed from the Bahamas to Cammell Laird, Gibraltar, for initial refitting work and removal of tons of asbestos
• 11.2005 Towed to Navantia - a drydock in Cadiz, Spain
• 02.2006 Towed to Gdansk [Danzig], Poland, for final refit
• Towed to Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
• 04.08.2008 Berthed at Katendrecht, Rotterdam, for use as a hotel and museum ship