SS Ryndam
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Rijndam (ID-2505) |
| Builder: | |
| Yard number: | 336 |
| Launched: | 1901 |
| Completed: | 3 October 1901 |
| Acquired: | March 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 1 May 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 October 1919 |
| Fate: | returned to owner; scrapped 1929 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 23,650 tons |
| Length: | 560 ft (170 m) |
| Beam: | 62 ft 4 in (19.00 m) |
| Draft: | 32 ft 3.5 in (9.843 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 26 ft 2 in (7.98 m) |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Troops: | 3,000 |
| Complement: | 636 |
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USS Rijndam (ID-2505) was a transport for the United States Navy during World War I. Both before and after her Navy service she was known as SS Rijndam or Ryndam as an ocean liner for the Holland America Line.
Rijndam was launched during 1901 by Harland & Wolff Ltd. of Belfast, Ireland, as a steel passenger liner for the Holland America Line.
On 25 May 1915, Rijndam was rammed by the Norwegian-flagged fruit steamer Joseph J. Cuneo about 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of the Nantucket Shoals. Responding to the SOS, U.S. Navy battleships Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Michigan, rescued 230 passengers from the damaged liner.
On 18 January 1916, Rijndam suffered damage when she struck a mine in the Thames Estuary during World War I.
Interned at New York later in World War I, she was seized during March 1918 by United States Customs officials along with 88 other Dutch vessels, 31 of which entered U.S. Navy service. Rijndam was commissioned 1 May 1918 at New York for service as a troopship, with Commander John J. Hannigan in command.
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