:::: Liners
NIEUW AMSTERDAM
Code - NL198
£1.75
Date - 1938
Description - NIEUW AMSTERDAM NL198
Holland America Line liner.
Completed 1938. Projected sister
Rotterdam completed to different
design. Displacement 36,287t gross
Dimensions 670' x 88'
Speed 21 knots
During WW2 sailed over 500,000
miles as troopship under control
of Cunard Line. Resumed Atlantic
crossing 1947. Scrapped 1974.
