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Several ships of the Holland America Line have operated under the name Noordam'' (Dutch for the northern compass point): *SS Noordam (1902) was the first ''Noordam'', a transatlantic ocean liner of 12,528 gross tons built at Harland and Wolff, operating mostly from Rotterdam to New York between 1902 and 1927. * was a freighter built by P. Smit Jr. in Rotterdam, had a cruising speed of 18 knots. In 1942 she was converted to a troop transport and serves as one of the foreign troop ships under the United States War Shipping Administration in the Southwest Pacific, Pacific and after June 1945 in the Atlantic. She was renamed ''Oceanien'' in 1963, and was scrapped in Yugoslavia in 1967. *The third ''Noordam'' was a cruise ship launched in 1983. She was chartered to Thomson Cruises in 2005, renamed , and is active as of 2010. *The fourth is a cruise ship christened in 2006, and active as of 2010. ==References== *http://cruise.bwatts.org/HAL22808/Noordamhistory.htm 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of ships named Noordam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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