SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1905)

SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a steam ocean liner built for the Holland America Line by Harland and Wolff in Belfast as yard number 366, laid down on 21 January 1904, launched on 28 September 1905 and completed on 6 March 1906. At 16,967 gross register tons she was the first of the line's ships to have quadruple expansion steam engines, which drove twin screws for about 16 knots, and until Rotterdam entered service in 1908 she was the largest and swiftest ship in the fleet. Her usual route ran between Rotterdam and Hoboken. She remained in service through most of the First World War, repatriated members of the American Expeditionary Forces from France in 1919, and was damaged by a cargo fire in 1922. Identified as surplus after a 1931 agreement to cut North Atlantic passenger capacity, she was sold in January 1932 and scrapped in Japan.