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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 ...
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.
Pages in category "World War I passenger ships" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. W. SS Westralia (1896)
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]
Caserta departed New York 10 May 1918 on the first of five convoy voyages to Europe before the war's end—carrying elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division's 47th Infantry Regiment, who called her a "cattle boat"—and accompanied by U.S. Navy transports President Lincoln, Covington, Rijndam, UK troopship Dwinsk, and Italian steamship Dante ...
Her passenger accommodation had berths for 286 first class, 292 second class and 1,800 third class passengers. [4] Her holds had capacity of 530,000 cubic feet (15,008 m 3) for grain or 488,000 cubic feet (13,819 m 3) for cargo in bales. [3] Noordam had twin screws, each driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine.
The sinking of USS President Lincoln, painting by Fred Dana Marsh, 1920. In US service, President Lincoln made five voyages from New York to France. Transporting approximately 23,000 American troops to Brest and St. Nazaire, four cycles were completed without incident: October–November 1917, December 1917 - January 1918, February–March, and March–May.
Djemnah – This troopship, traveling from Marseille to Madagascar, with 745 soldiers on board was torpedoed on 14 July by German submarine SM UB-105. There were 435 casualties. 435 Military 1918 United Kingdom: HMS Otranto – was a passenger liner rebuilt as a troopship.