SS ''Nieuw Amsterdam'' was a ship built in Belfast by

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. It was launched in 1905 and on April 7, 1906, made its first voyage to

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from

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.''Nieuw Amsterdam''.
greatships.net. Retrieved March 29, 2014. The ''Nieuw Amsterdam'' was fitted with sails, but they were never deployed; it was the first quadruple expansion powered ship of the

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. In 1914, the ship brought almost 1,700 United States citizens back from Europe at the outbreak of

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. In 1917 she took 2,300 Dutch seamen from the United States back to Holland. The ship was renovated in 1918 and overhauled in 1925 to a "cabin/tourist configuration". It became the first ship to bring immigrants to the large new Canadian immigration terminal

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, on March 8, 1928, and made 31 voyages to Pier 21 with Dutch immigrants before its retirement."Ship Arrival Database", ''Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21''
/ref> The last transatlantic passenger trip was made from Rotterdam on October 2, 1931, for New York. ''Nieuw Amsterdam'' arrived in Japan in February 1932 where it was scrapped.

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