SS Statendam (1924)

SS Statendam was a steam turbine transatlantic liner of the Holland America Line, the third of five ships of the line to carry the name, built to replace the second Statendam, which the British government requisitioned as a troop ship in 1915 and which was sunk in 1918. Harland and Wolff built her at Belfast as yard number 612, laying her keel in 1921 and launching her on 11 September 1924 with no ceremony. The company then lacked funds, work stopped for almost three years, and she was towed to the Netherlands and completed at Schiedam. At 29,511 gross register tons, with turbines driving two screws through single reduction gearing at 19,500 shaft horsepower and 19 knots, she was the largest ship in the Dutch merchant fleet until 1938. She was burnt out in the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 and her hulk was scrapped that August.