Builder: Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast, Ireland.
Completed : June 1908.
Gross tonnage: 24149.
Dimensions: 668ft x 77ft. Depth 47ft.
Engines: Two four-cylinder, quadruple expansion
Screws: Twin.
Watertight bulkheads: Twelve.
Decks: Five.
Normal speed: 17 knots.
Passenger accommodation: 539 first and 643 tourist class.
Maiden voyage: Rotterdam–New York on June 13, 1908.
Employed in the Rotterdam–Channel ports–New York service until she was laid up during the period from 1916 to 1919.
Resumed scheduled sailings to New York in February 1919.
Converted to oil-firing in 1923 and was settled in the Rotterdam– Boulogne–Southampton–New York run with a call at Plymouth instead of Southamp¬ton eastbound.
On September 30, 1935, she ran aground on Morant Cays in the West Indies during a severe gale while on a cruise with 424 persons on board.
The passengers were taken off the following day by a British steamer and landed where they could make new passage arrangements.
The Rotterdam was one of the first large Atlantic liners along with the smaller Nieuw Amsterdam to be built with a glassed-in promenade deck and was one of the finest ships of her day, both in appearance and profits.
Rotterdam was a fine example of an Edwardian-class luxury liner and cruise ship with her moderate tempo in speed and plush interiors.
Sold for scrap in the Netherlands in January 1940 after having been laid up the year before.
The illustration is a label. I don't think this vessel appears on a postage stamp. North Atlantic Passenger Liners since 1900 by N T Cairis