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| Career
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| Name: |
SS Rijndam |
| Operator: |
NASM |
| Builder: |
N.V. Dok- en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam the Netherlands[1] |
| Yard number: |
732[2] |
| Laid down: |
17 DEC 1949[2] |
| Christened: |
19 DEC 1951 Mrs. C. Tjarda van Stakenborgh Stachouwer-Marburg (wife of the prewar Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies)[2] |
| Acquired: |
10 JUL 1951[2] |
| Maiden voyage: |
16 JUL 1951[2] |
| In service: |
1951-1966 with NASM[2] |
| Out of service: |
2003 |
| Fate: |
Sank on in route to scrapping at Alang, India |
| Status: |
Sunk |
| Notes: |
Originally ordered as combination cargo passenger ship Dinteldijk |
| General characteristics
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| Displacement: |
15,015 GRT[1] |
| Length: |
503 ft (153.3 m)[2] |
| Beam: |
69 ft (21.0 m)[2] |
| Installed power: |
cross-compound General Electric steam turbines (built in 1945) 8,500shp double-reduction geared[2] |
| Propulsion: |
Single screw[2] |
| Speed: |
16.5 knots[2] |
| Capacity: |
39 first class berths, 854 Tourist passengers[2] |
| Notes: |
Daily fuel consumption 53 tons, daily (considered low for that time)[2] |
The SS Rijndam (also spelled Ryndam) was a ship that was built for Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij in 1951. She was built by N.V. Dok en Werfmaatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam. The original intent of her design was to be designated as the freighter Dinteldyk (which was also designed to carry a small compliment of passengers). A decision was made ton have her redesigned as a liner in 1950, but she still retained the stout hull lines and sturdy machinery of a freighter.[1][2] 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) 1970's design appearance.[2] 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.[1] In 1993, she was docked permanently in Biloxi, Mississippi and became the Copa Casino. When Copa Casino adopted a more permanent structure, a decision was made that she should be scrapped. In 2003, sunk on her way to the ship breakers in Alang, India.[1]
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