Newsreel: SS Rotterdam 1915 and SS New Amsterdam 1938

[sellblock1138]

This is the ship that took the Srp side of my family to America. Fasinating stuff!

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Rotterdam & Nieuw Amsterdam are two of the most beautiful Dutch Liners.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

SS Rotterdam of 1915 is very beautiful Ocean liner & so is Nieuw Amsterdam. I HATE everything about scrap merchants. I HATE them, I HATE what they do to Ocean Liners & I REALLY HATE their no good God Damn Fucking business.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Why do those damn scrap merchants keep getting their damn hands on those beautiful Ocean liners? Why?

[lucidity4]

Too cool! I've seen photos before but it is rather exciting to see film of a ship an ancestor arrived on. I bet he was 3rd class though. LOL

For the comments in English, The ROTTERDAM IV was sold to Dutch breakers in Jan of 1940. Basically they stripped them, recycled, and the hulls were left in a ship graveyard.

[couprie]

@sanderrodijk The ship open fir public in Rotterdam is the Rotterdam V. The Rotterdam IV, on which my grandfather was a ships carpenter,  was demolished in 1940.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

What happen to 1915 Rotterdam.

[Abricialio]

Zoek op Wikipedia NL Rotterdam IV :)

[Abricialio]

I mean this ship, Rotterdam IV from 1908.

[Abricialio]

What about rebuilding the SS Rotterdam IV? They said it only costs 5 million dollars.

[Maasdam1993]

@Abricialio SS Rotterdam IV? die is in 1940 gesloopt je bedoeld natuurlijk SS Rotterdam V. Dat heeft zo'n 250 milljoen Euro gekost. In 1959 kostte de Rotterdam zo'n 110 miljoen gulden dat is zo'n 50 milljoen Euro reken maar uit.

[Abricialio]

@Maasdam1993 Nee ik bedoel het oude stoomschip de SS. Rotterdam IV 1908-1940. Als het met cruise-schip materiaal gebouwd wordt is het natuurlijk goedkoper. Want ze zeggen als je stoomschip materiaal bouwd is de SS. Rotterdam IV bijna 250 miljoen euro.

[TitanicWHV]

Nice ships :)

[Abricialio]

Oh I see. The SS Rotterdam III (1908) was scrapped in 1940. :(

[Abricialio]

What happened to SS Rotterdam?

[Gandalf4568]

Dankje ! Dat is idd het nummer

[ManWhoLovesTheMary]

The Nieuw Amsterdam is one of my favorite ocean liners of the Holland America Line. Absolutly love it. The music really conveys the sense of how beautiful the liners were.

[samborghini]

Great footage, song fits brilliantly too

[nfsmw9]

nice footage:D

[PhilippeVergauwen]

Great footage !

[TitanicWHV]

Yes, nice footage, thank you.

[villarock9]

Nice Footage!