SS Ryndam (1950)
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{{otherships|USS Rijndam{{!}}USS Rijndam|MS Ryndam{{!}}MS Ryndam}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = SS Ryndam.jpg | Ship caption = Ryndam in 1951 }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = Netherlands | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Netherlands|civil}} | Ship name = Ryndam | Ship owner = Holland America Line | Ship operator = Holland America Line | Ship registry = | Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = N.V. Dok- en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam{{cite web |url=http://www.vdleek.nl/Hal/Vloot/Ryndam.html |title=Ryndam |accessdate=2010-04-12 |date=2005-06-13}} | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = 732{{cite web |url=http://www.halpostcards.com/unofficial/kohler.html |title=Maasdam/Ryndam (for Ships Monthly) |accessdate=2010-04-12 |date= September–October 1987}} | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = 17 December 1949 | Ship launched = 18 December 1950 | Ship completed = 1951 | Ship christened = 19 December 1950 | Ship acquired = 10 July 1951 | Ship maiden voyage = 16 July 1951; | Ship in service = 1951–1966 with NASM | Ship out of service = 2003 | Ship identification = *{{IMO Number|5302776}} | Ship fate = Sank en route to scrapping at Alang, India | Ship notes = Originally ordered as combination cargo passenger ship Dinteldijk | Ship renamed = *Atlas (1972)
}} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship type = cruise ship | Ship tonnage = {{GRT|15015}} | Ship length = {{convert|503|ft|1|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|69|ft|1|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draft = | Ship depth = | Ship decks = | Ship power = cross-compound General Electric steam turbines (built in 1945) 8,500 shp double-reduction geared | Ship propulsion = Single screw | Ship speed = {{convert|16.5|kn|km/h|0}} | Ship capacity = 39 first class, 854 tourist class | Ship crew = | Ship notes = Daily fuel consumption 53 tons, daily (considered low for that time) }} |
SS Ryndam was an ocean liner built for Holland America Line in 1951. She was built by N.V. Dok en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam. She was christened by Mrs. C. Tjarda van Stakenborgh Stachouwer-Marburg (wife of the prewar Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies). The original intent of her design was to be designated as the freighter Dinteldyk (which was also designed to carry a small complement of passengers). A decision was made to have her redesigned as a liner in 1950, but she still retained the stout hull lines and sturdy machinery of a freighter. The ship played a major role in post-war immigration from Europe making frequent voyages to New York City and the Pier 21 immigration facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In March 1962 Edward & Alex Van Halen, and their parents Jan & Eugenia Van Halen, immigrated to the US aboard the SS Ryndam.
File:"Atlas" - Miami, 1974.jpg, November 1974]] For many years it was also the shipboard campus of the World Campus Afloat, which sailed the world offering college courses for students from all over the world.
In 1973, she was sold to a Panamanian subsidiary of a Greek shipping interest and extensively refitted with her bow line changed, many internal changes, and alterations to her superstructure. This was done to give her a more modern (at the time) 1970s design appearance. In 1988 she was sold to gaming interests and performed short cruises in the Gulf of Mexico under the name Pride of Mississippi, and in 1991 was renamed Pride of Galveston. In 1993, with her engines inoperable, she was towed to Gulfport, Mississippi where she was docked permanently and became the Copa Casino. When Copa Casino adopted a more permanent structure, a decision was made that she should be scrapped. She foundered off the coast of the Dominican Republic on her way, under tow, to the ship breakers in Alang, India on 16 March 2003.
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Category:Passenger ships of the Netherlands
Category:Ships built in Schiedam