Ship Passenger List: the Rotterdam from Rotterdam to New York, 1887

SS Rotterdam

passenger list

Arrived in New York from Rotterdam

Captain Vis


transcribed from National Archives microfilm #M237-507 (list #630)

by Joe Beine

SS Rotterdam II, 1878, Holland America Line
photographer: John S. Johnston; image courtesy of the Library of Congress, USA



Ship Information

The Rotterdam (II) of the Holland-America Line was built in 1878 by Harland & Wolff, Ltd. in Belfast, Ireland (Northern Ireland today). It had an iron hull, weighed 3,329 tons, and was 397 feet long and 37 feet wide. It had four masts and one funnel (smokestack). It was originally designed as a freighter for British Shipowners Company and was later converted to a passenger ship, able to carry 920 passengers. In 1896 it was renamed the Edam (III). The ship was scrapped in 1899.

source: Passenger Ships of the World Past and Present, 2nd Edition, by Eugene W. Smith; George H. Dean Co: Boston, 1978; P. 227.
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Passenger List of S.S. Rotterdam from Rotterdam 19 October 1899 to New York

Short list


First Cabin 54 Second Cabin 89 Steerage 794 _________ Total 934 _____________________________ Left Rotterdam Oct 19th 1 PM Left Boulogne* Oct 20th 1:25 AM Arrived at Quarentaine* 7:45 AM No births No deaths First Cabin ___________ 1. Miss F. Ackermann Steerage from Rotterdam _______________________ 415. A 7 K. Pegall 416. D 13 A. Pal* 417. J 3 K. Preker 418. L 1 F. Poraner 419. L 5 H. Pikel 420. L 8 J. Patztar 421. L 14 T. L. Preger 422. M 26 J. Patecko 423. M 28 F. Patenski 424. N 6 I. Pensareckis 425. N 27/30 L. Pekaart, Wife and Child 426. O 2 E. Preker 427. Q 3/4 B. Platzker & child 428 Q 19 I. Perlmather & child 429. R 13/15 R. Plantzer & 2 children 430. T 23 S. Pewis 431. U 18/20 A. Panker and 2 children 432. U 27/29 Ch. Prinz & 2 children 433. V 8 A. Ptak 434. X 25 J. Panska

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