Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 3 May 1906, p. 17

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CLEVELAND. MAY 83, 1906. No. 18. TWIN-SCREW STEAMSHIP NEW AMSTERDAM. The steel, twin-screw steamship New Amsterdam is the latest addition to the passenger fleet of the Holland- Wednesday morning, to land her passengers at Boulogne- sur-Mer.on Friday morning of the following week, which means arrival at either Paris or London on Friday after- Barri da les TWIN SCREW STEAMSHIP NEW AMSTERDAM. American line. She was built at Belfast, Ireland, at the vards of Messrs. Harland & Wolff, and was launched on Sept. 28, 1905. She sailed from Rotterdam on April 7, on her maiden trans-Atlantic trip. The New Amsterdam is not an ocean flyer. She has a speed of 16 knots, and is expected, leaving New York on DUTCH FIREPLACE IN THE SMOKING ROOM. noon. The steamer's dimensions are: Length, 615 ft.; beam, 6814 ft.; depth, 48 ft. She measures 17,258 gross CORNER OF THE JAPANESE TEA ROOM. register tons, with a displacement of 30,200 tons. Like the other steamers of the Holland-America line, she is constructed of stéel, provided with bilge keels, and has two separate sets of quadruple-expansion engines of 10,- ooo H. P., each set working independently of the other,

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