SS Volendam

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The Volendam was a turbine ship of the Holland America Line.

History

The passenger steamer was built in 1922 at Harland & Wolff in Govan and launched on July 6, 1922. On November 4, 1922, he took his first trip. After a renovation in 1928, he could accommodate 1175 passengers, of which 263 were in first class. In April 1940, the Volendam completed her last transatlantic trip in regular scheduled service during the Second World War. On August 30th of the same year, she was torpedoed on a trip to Canada with evacuated children on board a German U - boat, but could move to the Isle of Bute and repaired. As of 1941, the Volendam was used as a troop transport. In 1945, she returned to Rotterdam and in 1946 they brought Dutch troops to Indonesia. In 1947 she was employed as emigrant ship on the way to Australia. Later they reversed back to their ancestral line between Rotterdam and New York and Rotterdam and Quebec. She was scrapped in 1952.

Sea journey with Don Quixote

1934 took Thomas and Katia Mann their first trip to America on the Volendam. They embarked on May 19, 1934 in Boulogne, and entered into New York on the morning of May 29th. During the crossing, Thomas Mann planned his sea journey with Don Quixote, in which he reported, among other things, about life on board.