REMEMBERING 15 YEARS AGO
STATENDAM’S MAIDEN ARRIVAL - APRIL 16, 1993

Photos and Text by Theodore W. Scull

1) Holland America Line’s 55,451-ton STATENDAM comes up the North River
during her maiden New York arrival on April 16, 1993.



2) The 719.4-foot STATENDAM can take 1,266 passengers double occupancy in 663 cabins of which 150 sport private balconies.
A Moran tug has put on the docking pilot as the ship maneuvers into her West Side berth.

3) WSS member David Powers is flanked by two Stephen Card paintings hanging on the forward stairway.
The left one depicts the STATENDAM of 1957 coming under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and the right one, the three-funneled STATENDAM, completed in 1929, is set against the Manhattan skyline and with a Lackawanna ferry in the foreground.

4) A cabin deluxe with private balcony aboard the brand-new STATENDAM berthed in New York.

5) A corner of a lounge aboard the new STATENDAM.

6) The QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 is docking across the way as seen from the STATENDAM on April 17, 1993.

(Photographs by Theodore W. Scull)