SS Veendam (1922)

SS Veendam was a Dutch-owned transatlantic liner built for the Holland America Line by Harland and Wolff at its Govan shipyard in Glasgow as yard number 650, launched on 18 November 1922 and completed in March 1923. She and her sister Volendam belonged to the line's first generation of turbine steamships, and until the flagship Statendam arrived in 1929 they were its largest. Measuring 15,450 gross register tons, she had two screws, each driven by a high-pressure and a low-pressure Brown-Curtis turbine through single-reduction gearing, which gave her 15 knots. She ran mainly between Rotterdam and Hoboken, with seasonal cruises to the Caribbean. In the Second World War she evacuated refugees, was captured in the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, served as an accommodation ship, and sank at her moorings after air raids. Raised in 1945, she returned to service in 1947 and was scrapped in 1953.