Card Art: Zijldyk

Roland | April 3, 2008 at 10:30 am | In Art on Eurodam, Latest News |


An alert reader (and you know who you are) alerted us that there are two more paintings by Stephen Card that will be displayed on Eurodam, even though we’ve shown you all the images we’ve managed to collect so far.

So here is Zijldyk, about which we know very little beyond the fact that it was a cargo ship (hence the -dyk suffix) that was part of the Holland America Line fleet from 1909 to 1928.

If an alert reader (and you know who you are) has additional information on Zijldyk, please share it with us and we’ll share it with everybody.

UPDATE: I just knew someone in The Netherlands was paying attention. Check out the comments on this post for more information on Zijldyk from a couple of our alert readers. Thanks guys!

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  1. Beautiful painting love the view clipper bow freighters and liners NASM/HAL owned.

    Here is some additional information about ss Zijldijk.

    Build: 1900
    At the Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd. Sunderland-England.
    As the ss RUNO, fore the Neptune Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. 1900 till 1906
    4.190 grt
    130,15 meter
    10,5 knots
    43 crew

    1906-1909 ss RUNO fore Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd., Sunderland-England.

    06.1909-1928 ss ZIJLDYK fore NASM/Holland Amerika Lijn, Rotterdam the Netherlands.
    Maiden Voyage July 3 1909.

    1928-1930 ss Eenambt fore HOFLAAN, N.V. Stoomschip Rotterdam-Nederland.

    Sold fore scrap December 1930 to N.V. Frank Rijsdijk’s Industrieele Ondernemingen te Hendrik Ido Ambacht (they also scrapped the burned out tss Statendam (WW2) and taken out of service tss Rotterdam 4 in 1940) Te ship was scrapped early 1931.

    Greetings frome Eurodam Homeport Rotterdam Ben.

    Comment by Maasdam — April 3, 2008 #

  2. The painting is showing ZIJLDYK off Wolf Rock.
    The ship was built by Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland (yard nr. 572) as RUNO for Neptune Steam Navigation Company Ltd, Sunderland.
    The ship was 130.15 long, 14.17 m at the beam and a draft of 11.15 m. and measured 4.190 grt.
    Launched on 19 October 1899 and handed over in January 1900.
    In June 1909 she was purchased by HAL and made her first voyage on 3 July 1909.
    On 29 December 1928 she was sold to Wester Scheepvaart Maatschappij Wesma in Rotterdam and renamed HOFLAAN.
    In December 1930 she was scrapped by N.V. Frank Rijsdijk in Hendrik Ido Ambacht.
    With the same hull design she looks like a sistership to ZAANDYK (1), which was built in 1899 by a different yard for the same Neptune Steam Navigation Company Ltd in Sunderland.

    Comment by wvdleek — April 4, 2008 #

  3. According to G.J. de Boer in his book ‘125 jaar Holland-Amerika Lijn’, the ZIJLDYK was sold to N.V. Stoomschip ‘Eenambt’, which was owned by Wester Scheepvaart Maatschappij ‘Wesma’ in Rotterdam and renamed HOFLAAN.

    I am now looking forward to the sixth and last painting by captain Stephen Card, which is showing RYNDAM outbound for Wellington.

    Comment by wvdleek — April 5, 2008 #

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