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The <i>Rotterdam</i> was launched and delivered in 1878 by Harland &amp; Wolff of Belfast as the <i>British Empire</i> (Yard no. 118) for the British Shipowners' Co Ltd of Liverpool. In 1886 she was taken over by the Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Mij of Rotterdam, and named <i>Rotterdam</i>. In 1895 the company changed her name to <i>Edam</i>. Broken up in Genoa in 1899. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.miramarshipindex.nz/ship/1078797">miramarshipindex.nz via the Wikipedia Library.</a></div>
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