Holland America Line
Fact file
This fact file is a snapshot of the company between 1930
and 1945. Owners / Company name
Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatchappij
[Netherlands-America Steamship Company (NASM)] Company flag Major routes
Rotterdam - Southampton - New York
Rotterdam - London - Panama - west coast of USA
New York - Dutch East Indies Ship colours
Black hull. Buff coloured funnels with green, white and green
bands. Timeline | 1871 | Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij Company is
founded as Plate, Reuchlin and Company in Rotterdam | | 1873 | The Holland-America Line is formed | | 1895 | Holland-America offers its first cruise service | | 1899 | The company starts a cargo service from Amsterdam to Newport
News (USA), introducing the first of NASM`s fleet of cargo liners
with names ending in `dyk` | | 1935 | Red Star Line - competitors in the Europe-New York service -
collapses. Holland-America buys their ships Pennland
and Westernland with the right to operate between
Antwerp and New York under the name `Red Star Line`. | | 1945 | At the end of the Second World War only nine of the company`s
twenty-five ships remained in their service | | 1957 | The company`s new liner Statendam is the first
major vessel not to be named at her launching ceremony. She was
built in a graving dock instead of on a slipway and was named after
trials in the North Sea, seven months after she entered the
water | | 1958 | After the war, traffic requirements and ship design change and
a new vessel, Rotterdam was built to modern designes
- she had no funnel. | | 1971 | The company stops running transatlantic passenger services and
concentrates on cruises |
Website
www.hollandamerica.com
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