ROTTERDAM and STATENDAM in Roterdam

Another original painting by Captain Stephen J. Card onboard the new Holland America Line's flagship KONINGSDAM depicting a waterfront scene in the port of Rotterdam somewhere in the early nineteen sixties showing the ROTTERDAM of 1959 arriving and the fleetmate STATENDAM of 1957 at her Whilhelminakade berth.

Photographs taken by Luís Miguel Correia on the KONINGSDAM, May 2016.

Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

SS ROTTERDAM

In July 2011, I visited the grand Rotterdam, then just recently opened as a museum & hotel, while moored in homeport waters, at Rotterdam. It was a great treat --- the restoration is superb. The ship, built in 1959, sailed for the Holland America Line until 1997, afterward did a stint as the cruise ship Rembrandt and finally was bought by Dutch preservationists. She underwent a long, very costly facelift for her current role. Some reports suggest as much as a staggering $250 million in all. But recent times have been troubled, mostly in the finance department. The 38,000-tonner has beenreportedly for sale. And with that, word came this month that Oman might buy her for use as a "government reception center," a hotel and trade center.

Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright Bill Miller. Favor não piratear. Respeite o meu trabalho / No piracy, please. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

ROTTERDAM e ELBE

Dois belos navios fotografados no passado dia 7 de Setembro no porto de Roterdão: o paquete ROTTERDAM de 1959 e o rebocador ELBE, ambos preservados, o paquete em serviço estático e o rebocador em condições de operar, preservado por um grupo de entusiastas de rebocadores holandeses. Fotografia de Hans Hoffman.

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REMBRANDT in Lisbon

The famous passenger liner and cruise ship ROTTERDAM of 1959 in her afterlife as Premier Cruises REMBRANDT (1997-2000) photographed leaving Lisbon on her only call under this name on 22 October 1998. It was also her final visit to Lisbon, although many years later she passed our west coast under tow from Cadis to Poland...She has been refitted as hotel ship and museum and now she is open to the public in Rotterdam under original livery and name...
For another photo of REMBRANDT check here..

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ROTTERDAM in Cape Town 1970

The magnificent Holland America Line flagship ROTTERDAM of 1959 photographed  in Cape Town in January 1970 while on her world cruise.

The ROTTERDAM had a long career under Holland America until 1997 when she was sold to Premier Cruises and renamed REMBRANDT. The second career was a short one as by September 2000 Premier Cruises went bankrupt and the REMBRANDT was laid up in Freeport, Bahamas.

The old former ROTTERDAM was lucky, however, as the City of Rotterdam and local interests rescued her and following several years of refits the ROTTERDAM has just opened her doors again in her former home port of Rotterdam, as hotel ship and tourist's attraction.

These are just two of many fine photographs of famous passenger ships taken worldwide by my friend Trevor Jones of Durban. More on the ROTTERDAM of 1959 here.

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CRUZEIROS EM ROTERDÃO

Roterdão é um dos portos europeus que nos últimos anos viu crescer a actividade de navios de cruzeiros.
As imagens do nosso Amigo Cees de Bijl mostram duas facetas da realidade actual dos paquetes em Roterdão: um visitante ilustre, o icónico paquete britânico QUEEN MARY 2, atracado no passado dia 22 de Julho de 2009 durante um cruzeiro, e o antigo navio de passageiros ROTTERDAM, construído na cidade na década de 1950 e entrado ao serviço da Holland America Line em 1959, que se encontra preservado devido a esforços conjugados de entidades oficiais e privadas.
De salientar a atitude dos holandeses e em especial da população de Roterdão que têm o maior orgulho nas actividades marítimas e portuárias da sua grande cidade, ao contrário do que acontece em Lisboa, onde uma elite bacoca e ignota promove campanhas de desmaritimização e contra o binómio Cidade-Navios, baseadas em limitações estéticas inquinadas, alimentadas na cultura de "fare niente" nacional e possivelmente promovidas indirectamente pelos "lobbies" do betão e dos patos bravos alfacinhas que não descansam enquanto não levarem as suas realizações cinzentas a todas as áreas fluviais e portuárias possíveis.


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SS ROTTERDAM in Rotterdam

The classic steam turbine passenger liner and cruise ship ROTTERDAM of 1959 berthed in Rotterdam where she is being preserved as hotel and museum ship. Photographs by Cees de Bijl taken on 22 July 2009. Thanks for allowing us to show the beautiful images...
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The ROTTERDAM of 1959 in Wilhelmshaven

The steamship ROTTERDAM of 1959 alongside the shipyard at Wilhelmshaven on 9 June 2008 undergoing conversion into hotel and museum ship. She is scheduled to open in Rotterdam later this year.
The ROTTERDAM was one of the most successful passenger ships built on the twentieth century and one of two survivors of the defunct Premier Cruises fleet, the other being the OCEANIC of Pullmantur.
Texto /Text by L.M.Correia. Photo copyright Cai Ronnau. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

Paquete ROTTERDAM de 1959

Aspecto da conversão do famoso paquete ROTTERDAM de 1959 para museu e hotel flutuante que está a ser efectuada no porto alemão de Willelmshaven, mais conhecido por ser uma importante base naval.
O ROTTERDAM deverá regressar este ano ao porto de Roterdão e dar início à sua nova actividade. O navio apresenta as cores originais de 1959 e é um dos dois sobreviventes da frota da Premier Cruises, empresa que faliu em Setembro de 2000. O outro é o OCEANIC da Pullmantur.
Texto /Text by L.M.Correia. Photo copyright Cai Ronnau. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

NEW YORK PASSENGER SHIPPING 1975

While looking into my old photographs I found that great image of passenger ships in New York. It was taken in June 1975 and sent by The Port Authority of NY & NJ from their old office at One Trade Center, New York. The address is no longer active. Neither are three of the six ships. From left to right, the Norwegian America Line SAGAFJORD is still sailing as the SAGA ROSE; the DORIC ex-SHALOM of Home Lines sunk on her way to under Pullmantur /RCCL ownership the breakers as the SUN. The Italian Line flagship MICHELANGELO was doing her very last voyages and was withdrawn that summer. After an obscure career at the Iranian Navy she was scrapped in Pakistan; the OCEANIC is still cruising under the same name, while the ROTTERDAM (1959) is being converted into an hotel ship in Germany. Her fleet mate STATENDAM was scrapped in Alang after many years of lay up and neglect in Greece...
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SOUTHAMPTON PAX SHIPPING IN THE SIXTIES

Three "Atlantic Ferries" photographed in Southampton waters by Michael Sutcliffe in the sixties: United States Lines flagship UNITED STATES and the Holland America Line beauties the then new STATENDAM and ROTTERDAM.
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SS ROTTERDAM in Lisbon

Lisbon has been always a favorite port for cruise ships. Over the last 35 years I have been able to register on film many of the most beautiful passenger ships of the world in Lisbon waters, like the famous ROTTERDAM of 1959, photographed in the eighties on a World Cruise.
In 1997 she was sold to Premier Cruises and cruised as the REMBRANDT until Premier went bankrupt in September 2000. After a long lay up in Freeport and Gibraltar, the former pride of the Dutch merchant fleet was rescued and is now being converted in Wilhelmsaven, Germany, into a hotel ship and museum to be preserved in Rotterdam.
Texto e imagens /Text and images copyright L.M.Correia. For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia