PACIFIC / BALTIC / VEENDAM.

BUILT IN 1871 BY HARLAND AND WOLFF AT THEIR BELFAST YARD, SHE WAS TO BE NAMED "PACIFIC", BUT DUE TO ANOTHER VESSEL WITH THAT NAME HAVING JUST SUNK, SHE WAS  LAUNCHED AS THE PACIFIC BUT WAS   RE-NAMED ' BALTIC ' BEFORE HER MAIDEN VOYAGE.

 SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 3,707 TONS AND SHE HAD A SPEED OF FOURTEEN KNOTS. SHE CARRIED ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS, SIXTY SECOND CLASS AND ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS.

IN 1888 SHE WAS SOLD TO THE HOLLAND AMERICA LINE  AND WAS RE-NAMED VEENDAM.

1898 WHILE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC SHE HIT A SUBMERGED OBJECT AND SUNK, WITHOUT CASUALTIES.