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Meanwhile, Holland America Line's Rotterdam, set for delivery on July 30, 2021, the seventh HAL ship to bear the Rotterdam name, will recreate the maiden voyage of the line's first vessel, the Rotterdam 1, with a 12-day, 150th Anniversary Transatlantic on Oct. 15, 2022.

A poster advertising Holland America Line's first ship, the Rotterdam, which sailed its maiden voyage from the Netherlands to New York on Oct. 15, 1872, and led to the founding of the company on April 18, 1873. The ship cost 30,000 pounds in 1872, the equivalent of $4.9 million today, and that first voyage carried only 70 passengers and 600 tons of cargo.

The atrium on Holland America Line's Rotterdam, set for delivery on July 30, 2021.