History

	LOI
27/10/1955	Building contract
	Building started
14/12/1956	Keel laid
13/9/1958	Launch
11/7/1959	Sea trial
1-6/8/1959	Second sea trial
20/8/1959	Delivered to N.V. Mallship “Rotterdam” (Holland America Lijn), Rotterdam, Holland
3/9/1959	Maiden voyage from Rotterdam to New York
11/12/59-29/1/1960	49 days cruise to South America.
1/2/1960	75-days The World cruise.
4/1960	Rotterdam – New York service.
9/12/1960	Cruises
2/1961	80 days “Cruise Around the World”
1961	Rotterdamn – Le Havre – Southampton – New York service.
2/1962	80 days Cruise “Around the World”

10/1965	Refurbished by Rotterdam Dry Dock Company

24/1/1967	80 days Cruise “Around the World”
3/10/1968	Arrived to Rotterdam after her final Transatlantic liner voyage.
10/1968	Rebuild to cruise ship by RDM Ship Yard.
9/12/1968	Back to service
10/1971	Drydocking at RDM Ship Yard.
10/1972	Drydocking at Lisbon shipyard. Hull got dark blue paint.
4/1973	Registered to Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad homeport.


30/9/1997	End of Rottendam´s last “Around the World cruise”
10/1997	Sold to Premier Cruises, Nassau, Bahamas. New name Rembrandt
21/12/1997	First cruise to South America
Summer 1998	Cruises in Europe
Winter 1998/99	Cruises in North America and Caribbean
26/4/1999	7-nigths cruises from Barcelona
11/1999	Cruises from Port Canaveral, Florida
30/4/2000	American east coast cruises
15/9/2000	Arrested in Halifax. After Premier Cruises went bankrupt.
30/9/2000	Moved to Freeport, Bahamas to laid up for sale.
7/5/2003	Sold to Rotterdam Dry Dock Company.
15-6/12/7/2004	Towed from Freeport to Camell-Laird Ship Yard, Gibraltar
24-25/11/2005	Towed to Cadiz, Spain
18/11/05-31/1/2006	Drydocking, painting her original colors and get her old name back.
	Towed to Gdansk where docked.
2/9/2006 – 2/8/2008	Docking at Wilhelmshaven . Where completed to restoration work.
4/8/2008	Arrived to Rotterdam
15/2/2009	Opened as Hotel and a Tourist Complex .
26/10/2012	Sold to WestCorp Hotels Group.
4/2013	Delivered to new owner. Continue same service.