Royal
Rotterdam Lloyd
- These pages are devoted
to postcards and photographs of the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd fleet
of ocean liners.
An
alphabetical list of ships
covered on this page is shown below.
The table beneath gives
complete
postcard histories
of selected ships. Below the table a
Fleet List of selected commercial and company cards is shown
in chronological order. I believe every class of passenger ship
delivered since 1900 is included. I hope to add additional cargo
and cargo-passenger ships later. Details on this page are taken
from Duncan Haws' Merchant Fleets Vol.35, and reference numbers
refer to those in this book. Dates by the ships' headings refer
to service with Rotterdam Lloyd, not the total lifespan of the
ship.
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- Ships on this Page (dates within
fleet):-
- Ardjoeno
1891-??
- Baloeran
1930-1943
- Blitar
1949-69
- Garoet
1947-71
- Goentoer
1902-1925
- Indrapoera
1926-1956
- Insulinde
1912-1933
- Kawi
1907-1926
- Kota
Inten Class
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Sisters were:- Kota Gede, Kota Radja, Kota Baroe, Kota Tjandi,
Kota Agoeng, Kota Pinang & Kota Nopan
- Langkoreas
1949-68
- Mataram
1948-68
- Modjokerto
1946-1963
- Ophir
1904-18
- Patria
1919-1934
- Rindjani
1907-1926
- Sibajak
1928-1959
- Sindoro
1900-1922
- Slamat
(I) 1923-1941
- Slamat
II) 1948-69
- Tambora
1910-1931
- Tabanan
1908-1930
- Tjerimai
1921-1933
- Waterman
1947-1963
- Willem
Ruys 1946-64
- Wilis
1905-24
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- Ardjoeno 1891-08
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- Sold to Greece
in 1908.
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- Sindoro 1900-1922
- Goentoer
1902-1925
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- 62-63: Two sisters of
5470 grt. Sindoro served with Portuguese line Nacional
as Pedro Gomes until 1932. Goentoer was scrapped.
(Passengers as built:- 1st: 80, 2nd: 38 + 400 troops forward).
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- Card
by JL of Sindoro
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- Card
F.G.C.Stewart of Sindoro
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- Card
by Schaefers of Goentoer
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- Card
by C.R.Hoffman, Southampton, of Goentoer
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- Ophir (1904-18)
- Wilis
(1905-24)
- Rindjani
(1907-1926)
- Kawi
1907-1926
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- 67-70: Four sisters of
4700 grt were built between 1904 and 1907. They were Ophir
(1904-18), Wilis (1905-24), Rindjani (1907-1926)
and Kawi 1907-1926. Wilis, Rindjani and
Kawi were all sold to the Turkish State Shipping Co and
survived into the 1950s. (Passengers as built:- 1st: 60, 2nd:
37, 3rd: 34, 4th:30).
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- A card
of Kawi by C.R.Hoffman, Southampton, is shown below.
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- An unidentified
card of Wilis is shown below.
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- Tabanan 1908-1930
- Tambora
1910-1931
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- 81/82: Sisters of 5600
grt. Sold to in 1930/31, Tambora was scrapped, but Tabanan
survived as Turkish Ege until 1954. (Passengers as built:-
1st: 77, 2nd: 50, 3rd: 30).
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- An unidentified
French card.
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- Postcard
by C.R.Hoffman, Southampton.
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- One
of the sisters at Port-Said, published by Levy.
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- Insulinde 1912-1933
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- 102: Entered service 1914.
Insulinde was sold to French company Cyprien Fabre in
1933, and renamed Banfora. She was captured by a British
armed merchant cruiser in 1942, and served as a troopship under
Elder Dempster management until 1946, when she was returned to
Fabre. Banfora received a rebuilding in 1950, acquiring
a shorter funnel. She was scrapped in Japan in 1957. (9615 grt,
Passengers as built:- 1st: 111, 2nd: 112, 3rd: 40, 4th: 40).
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- Postcard
by C.R.Hoffman, Southampton.
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- Postcard
by Beken of Cowes.
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- Rotterdam
Lloyd official interior view of First Class.
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- Postcard
of Banfora in Fabre service, after her rebuilding in 1950.
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- Postcard
of Banfora in Fabre service, after her rebuilding in 1950.
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- Patria 1919-1934
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- 110: Construction delayed
during WW1. Second funnel, a dummy, removed in 1928. Sold to
USSR in 1934, she was not scrapped until 1979. (9891 grt, Passengers
as built:- 1st: 120, 2nd: 124, 3rd: 44, 4th: 44).
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- A C.R.Hoffman,
Southampton, card is shown below.
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- 110:
A modern poster reproduction, published by Art Unlimited, Amsterdam
(serial A9497) is shown below.
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poster shows the Patria, is by Jos Rovers and dates from
ca.1924.
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- 110:
A modern photographic reproduction, published by Art Unlimited,
Amsterdam (serial A9496) card is shown below.
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shows Patria after the second (dummy) funnel had been
removed in 1928.
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- Tjerimai 1921-1933
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- 119: Ordered 1914 as Hamburg
ship Marie Woermann, but passed to the Netherlands after
WW1. She was laid up in 1930 when Dempo and Baloeran
entered service. Sold in 1933, becoming Egyptian El Nil,
but chartered by the British as a troopship 1940-50, managed
by Furness-Withy. She was scrapped in 1954. (7690 grt, Passengers
as built:- 1st: 140, 2nd: 80, 3rd: 40).
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Rotterdam Lloyd card is shown below.
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- Slamat 1923-1941
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- 126: Built 1923 as the
final Dutch turbine mailship on the East Indies service. Bombed
whilst assisting with the allied evacuation of Greece in 1941.
(11406 grt, Passengers as built:- 1st: 140, 2nd: 155, 3rd: 70,
4th:32).
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- A dramatic
French card of Slamat
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- A Rotterdam
Lloyd official of the First Class dining room.
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- Indrapoera 1926-1956
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- 127: Built 1926 as the
first Dutch motorship on the East Indies mail service. Served
until WW2, when used as a troopship. Returned to service 1949,
after rebuilding with extra cargo space. Sold in 1956, becoming
Bianca C. Chartered to Messageries Maritimes in 1958-63
as Melanesian, then broken up. (10825 grt, Passengers
as built:- 1st: 140, 2nd: 182, 3rd: 68)
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- Official
Royal Rotterdam Lloyd card, showing her pre-WW2 condition.
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- Official
Royal Rotterdam Lloyd card, showing her pre-WW2 condition.
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- Postcard
by C.R.Hoffman of Southampton.
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- Photographic
card of Melanesian in service with Messageries Maritimes
in 1958-63.
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