Media item

The Rotterdam, the floating hotel

Week number 59-07

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
02:09
Publication date:
13 January 1959
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER590-HRE0001DB79

Workers are busy completing the work on motor ship Rotterdam, with a.o. the grand dining hall, the kitchen, the cabins in the tourist class, a swimming pool, the sports deck, the engine room and the isolation of tubes and pipes with asbestos. H.W. de Monchy, director of the Holland America Line, tours the ship.