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. |