SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a steam ocean liner that was launched in Ireland in 1905, completed in 1906 and scrapped in Japan in 1932.

[6] On 28 March 1910, Nieuw Amsterdam arrived at Ellis Island carrying passengers including 600 Dutch emigrants who intended to farm in the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota.

[9] On 31 October 1910, the ship arrived at Hoboken carrying passengers including the soprano Lydia Lipkowska and singers of the Boston Opera Company.

Holland America Line was one of them, and the company duly had five more lifeboats installed aboard Nieuw Amsterdam, positioned on her poop deck.

[12] On a westbound crossing in November 1913, a passenger in second class, Mrs Bakker, was taken ill. She was admitted to the ship's hospital, but died two days after leaving Rotterdam.

[13] On a westbound crossing in February 1914, Nieuw Amsterdam weathered continuous storms all the way from the English Channel to New York Bay.

[15] As Nieuw Amsterdam returned from Hoboken on her way to Rotterdam, the French armed merchant cruiser (AMC) de:La Savoie stopped and inspected her.

[18] On 18 January 1915, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Caronia stopped and inspected Nieuw Amsterdam off Sandy Hook.

British authorities did not allow passengers ashore, but local fishing smacks delivered newspapers and telegrams to the ship each day.

[21] In September 1915 the US Government accused the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Washington, Konstantin Dumba, of trying to organise the sabotage of US munitions production.

[30] On 17 November 1916 Nieuw Amsterdam reached Hoboken carrying cargo including dyes worth $1 million for Herman A. Metz, President of Farbwerke Hoechst.

[31] On 21 December 1916, the naval trawler HMT St. Ives was sent to sweep for mines to let Nieuw Amsterdam enter Falmouth.

Off St Anthony Head the trawler hit a mine laid by a German U-boat, which sank her, killing 11 of her crew.

[36] By the beginning of October, Nieuw Amsterdam was in "an Atlantic port" of the USA, loaded with 10,000 tons of corn for the Commission for Relief in Belgium.

[37] By early November, she had embarked 300 Dutch refugees, who wished to return to the Netherlands, but the War Trade Board still would not release her.

[36] By 16 January 1918 Nieuw Amsterdam was at Rotterdam, and had loaded cargo including Dutch flower bulbs and plants, and had embarked 2,000 passengers.

[44] On 24 January, Algemeen Handelsblad reported that Germany intended to blacklist all Dutch shipping companies due to their agreement with the US government.

United States Customs Service officers, and women of the Naval Auxiliary, questioned passengers and inspected their papers.

[50] The ship's assistant purser, Johannes Werkhoven, was found to be carrying financial coupons worth $7,000 hidden in a cigar box, in violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917.

[49] On 20 March 1918, President Woodrow Wilson ordered the seizure under angary of 89 Dutch ships in US ports, but exempted Nieuw Amsterdam.

[56] In May 1918 Nieuw Amsterdam was delayed in Rotterdam for several days, awaiting a German government guarantee of her safe passage.

[64] After the Armistice of 11 November 1918, Nieuw Amsterdam made NASM's first post-war crossing to New York, leaving Rotterdam on 21 December 1918.

[1] On 5 January 191 she reached West 57th Street Pier, bringing home 323 officers and 1,829 men of the American Expeditionary Forces.

[70] On 29 June 1920 Nieuw Amsterdam arrived in Hoboken carrying passengers including a delegation from NDL led by Phillip Heineken.

[73] On 19 February 1921 Dennis Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, travelled to Jersey City in a decorated special train to embark on Nieuw Amsterdam.

However, at 10:00 hrs that morning her Chief Officer, Rudolph van Erb, discovered a fire in her number 5 hold aft.

[75] By 13:00 hrs, 40 firemen were being treated for the effects of fumes, and Hoboken FD asked New York City Fire Department for a fireboat.

NASM offered passengers in first class the options of either re-boarding the ship to await her delayed departure at the company's expense or transferring to United States Lines' President Harding.

On 18 March she reached Hoboken carrying 500 passengers, 400 of whom were Dutch and German farmers and their families, who intended to settle in western states.

[77] On 30 October 1924, on a westbound crossing from Rotterdam to Hoboken, Nieuw Amsterdam grounded on a shingle bank southwest of The Needles in the English Channel.