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SS Edam
SS ''Edam'' was the name of four ships operated by the Holland America Line Holland America Line is an American-owned cruise line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. Holland America Line was founded in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and from 1873 to 1989, it operated .... * ''Edam'' (1881) - 2,950 tons, sank 1882 in a collision with SS ''Lepanto'' of the Wilson Line. * ''Edam'' (1883) - 3,130 tons, sank 1895 in a collision with SS ''Turkistan''. * ''Edam'' (1895) - 3,329 tons, former ''British Empire'' and , scrapped 1899 in Italy. * ''Edam'' (1921) - 8,871 tons, scrapped 1954 in Hong Kong. {{DEFAULTSORT:Edam Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland America Line
Holland America Line is an American-owned cruise line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. Holland America Line was founded in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and from 1873 to 1989, it operated as a Dutch shipping line, a passenger line, a cargo line and a cruise line operating primarily between the Netherlands and North America. As part of the company's legacy, it was directly involved in the transport of many hundreds of thousands of emigrants from the Netherlands to North America. Holland America has been a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation since 1989. History Dutch shipping and passenger line (1873–1989) Holland America Line was founded in 1873, as the Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Dutch-American Steamship Company), in short Holland-Amerika Lijn, a shipping and passenger line. It was headquartered in Rotterdam, in the building which is now the Hotel New York. It provided service from its Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
