Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
USS Rijndam ' s officers on deck, in port at Norfolk, Virginia In March 1919 Princess Matoika and Rijndam raced each other from Saint-Nazaire to Newport News. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Princess Matoika was the swifter ship, but Rijndam recruited volunteers from the 133rd Field Artillery Regiment aboard as extra stokers for her furnaces, and with their help ...
SS Ryndam was an ocean liner built for Holland America Line in 1951. She was built by N.V. Dok en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam. She was christened by Mrs. C. Tjarda van Stakenborgh Stachouwer-Marburg (wife of the prewar Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies). [2]
USS Rijndam (ID-2505), a Holland America Line passenger liner that was built in 1901 and scrapped in 1929. She was a United States Navy transport in World War I. SS Ryndam (1950) aka Rijndam was an ocean liner built for Holland America Line, launched in 1950, renamed Pride of Mississippi, then Pride of Galveston, and sunk in 2003.
SS Noordam was a steam ocean liner that was launched in Ireland in 1901 and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1928–29. Holland America Line owned her throughout her career. From 1923 to 1924 Swedish American Line chartered her and renamed her Kungsholm.
Chief Radio Officer Jack van der Zee sent one out anyway about a half-hour later. [2] A model of MS Prinsendam. U.S. Coast Guard, United States Air Force Air Rescue Service, and Canadian Armed Forces Air Command CH-113 helicopters, which had greater range, rescued the passengers and crew. The rescue took place during a period of steadily ...
The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol, the Navy’s History and Heritage Command said ...
On 15 February 1963, in the Weser estuary off West Germany, the liner struck the wreck of the British ship Harborough, which had sunk in 1959 after striking the wreck of the Soviet ship Kholmogry. The Maasdam , carrying 500 persons, was safely evacuated despite a bad list, then was safely sailed to Bremerhaven by a skeleton crew.
SS Potsdam was a steam ocean liner that was launched in Germany in 1899 for Holland America Line.In 1915 Swedish American Line acquired her and renamed her Stockholm.. In 1929 Norwegian owners acquired her, had her converted into a whaling factory ship, and renamed her Solglimt.