Several ships of the
Holland America Line
Holland America Line N.V. (HAL) is an American cruise line operating as a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Founded in 1873 in Rotterdam, Netherlands as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company (NASM), the company operated regular trans ...
have operated under the name ''Noordam'' (Dutch for the northern compass point):
* was the first ''Noordam'', a
transatlantic
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* Transatlantic Pictures, a film production company from 1948 to 1950
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ocean liner
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of 12,528 gross tons built at
Harland and Wolff
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, operating mostly from Rotterdam to New York between 1902 and 1927.
* was a
cargo liner
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built by P. Smit Jr. in Rotterdam, had a cruising speed of . In 1942 she was converted to a troop transport and was one of the foreign troop ships under the United States
War Shipping Administration
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in the Southwest Pacific, Pacific and after June 1945 in the Atlantic. She was renamed ''Oceanien'' in 1963, and was scrapped in Italy in 1967.
* The third ''Noordam'' was a cruise ship launched in 1983. She was chartered to Thomson Cruises in 2005, renamed , and not active service. In September 2022 to scrap
* The fourth is a cruise ship christened in 2006, and in active service.
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