SS Rotterdam was a steam ocean liner that was launched and completed in Ireland in 1908, and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1940.

Early in 1906 HAL had sold its previous Rotterdam to Det Forenede Dampskibsselskab, who renamed her C.F.

[citation needed] Rotterdam had eight double-ended and two single-ended boilers, heated by a total of 54 corrugated furnaces.

The large lobby was finished in cream lacquered wood and had wide stairs with gilded wrought iron ornamentation and a copper handrail.

It led to a palm court of 46 by 39 ft (14 by 12 m), which was finished in cream lacquered wood in Louis XVI style.

In the center a large cupola with stained glass windows shed light on the garden and stairs.

The library measured 34 by 39 ft (10.5 by 12 m) and was decorated in Louis XVI style in Italian juglans wood.

Parts of Rotterdam's promenade decks had glass covers that could be brought up against the sea spray.

Spacious lobbies with seats led upstairs to the third class promenade deck, which was 11,000 sq ft (1,022 m2).

She toured the Mediterranean, visiting Cadiz, Gibraltar, Algiers, Piraeus, Istanbul, Jaffa, Alexandria, Naples, Villefranche-sur-Mer, and Boulogne.

Germany sought to import goods including copper, coffee, cotton, wool, livestock fodder, nitrate fertilisers, and up to a third of the total food supply for its population.

[citation needed] The war sharply reduced the number of emigrants willing to cross the Atlantic.

[citation needed] Increased cargo trade kept HAL ships busy in the war.

Imports to the Netherlands increased so much that HAL chartered ships to carry the extra cargo.

[22] Late in 1915 Rotterdam's cargo included 25,500 bales (60 kg (130 lb) sacks) of coffee.

On a westbound voyage in June 1915 the Royal Navy held Rotterdam for a total of eight days, first at The Downs and then at Avonmouth.

Also in England, she embarked survivors from the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd ship Palembang, which a mine planted by UC-10 had sunk on 18 March.

The official reason was that were she lost, she could not be replaced for many years because Dutch shipyards were not able to build a ship of the size of the Rotterdam.

[28] Rotterdam remained safely laid up after Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917.

[29] On 24 January she left Rotterdam for Hoboken carrying fewer than 100 passengers, but in Brest, France she embarked many US troops.

She continued to repatriate US troops for some months,[citation needed] and on 24 January 1919 she resumed civilian service between Rotterdam and Hoboken.

Also in April 1921, Rotterdam became the first ship to use the new 46,000-ton dry dock at Wilton's Dok- en Werf Maatschappij in Schiedam.

For 1931, NASM abolished the intermediate seasons, simplified the fares to summer and winter only, and announced significant reductions.

On Rotterdam, the minimum first class fare would be US$200 eastbound from August to April, and the same westbound from November to July.

At the beginning of September 1932, members of the Bond voor Minder Marine Personeel (BMMP) trade union working for most Dutch shipping lines struck for better wages.

[34] Her Master anchored her near the West Hinder lightvessel, where a detachment of 30 Dutch Marines boarded the ship from a pilot boat.

[38] However, the "contact commission" between the shipping companies and the BMMP established that an aggregate of the votes from the separate mass meetings at Amsterdam and Rotterdam produced a majority in favour of returning to work.

[46] On 29 September 1935, Rotterdam was cruising off Jamaica at the time of the 1935 Cuba hurricane when she ran aground on Morant Cays.

[52] In January 1936 HAL reclassified Rotterdam, Volendam and Veendam as "cabin class" ships.

[citation needed] In January 1940 HAL sold Rotterdam to Frank Rijsdijk's Industriëele ondernemingen of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht for scrap.