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...January 1936 the keel was laid. In April 1937 Queen Wilhelmina launched the Nieuw Amsterdam.* With accommodations for 1,232 passengers in cabin, tourist, and third classes, the new, 785 ft., 36,287 ton ship had 374 private bathrooms (a record for her size), 23 public rooms so arranged that all could be thrown together to make her a one-class ship for cruises, two swimming pools, a theatre, more complete air-conditioning and fire protection than any ship afloat, aluminum lifeboats. Most notable of all, her interior decoration ranked her at once as one of the most beautiful ships...
Last week when the Nieuw Amsterdam set sail, the renascent Holland-America Line had already been able to pay back in full the Government's "20year" loan, and only a successful maiden voyage was needed to make black ink blacker still. Half way across the Atlantic, the Nieuw Amsterdam ran into genuine rough weather. Officials aboard beamed with satisfaction. She proved not only seaworthy but exceptionally steady. Three days later, however, they discovered an error in their careful Dutch calculations: Designed to make 21½ knots, the Nieuw Amsterdam did 23 without pushing and as a "seven-day ship...
...Nieuw Amsterdam, Nearly twice the size of any vessel previously built in The Netherlands, the Nieuw Amsterdam was solemnly launched by Queen Wilhelmina early in 1937. Due to begin her trial runs in the next fortnight, Holland-America Line's air-conditioned flagship is scheduled to arrive in the U. S. next May. Almost exactly the size and speed of Britain's new Mauretania (see below), The Netherlands' vessel differs from the British ship in that it is streamlined, has egg-shaped, sootless funnels, and its $12,000,000 cost was met entirely without Government subsidy...
They arrived in Rotterdam in time to see Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina seize a hatchet of steel inlaid with gold, and sever with one blow the launching rope of the largest liner The Netherlands have built, the 33,000-ton Nieuw Amsterdam slated to maiden-voyage to Manhattan in the Spring...
...doughty Dutch immigrant, Stephanus Van Cortlandt was born in Nieuw Amsterdam in 1643, saw it become New York under the English in 1664. An active politician, he was chosen Mayor of New York at the age of 34, later collected its taxes, dispensed justice from its supreme court. Outside of political office hours, he piled up a fortune as a merchant at the northeast corner of Pearl & Broad Streets, served as senior warden of Trinity Church, bought land in what is now Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson...