Immigrant Ships
S.S. Cincinnati - Brought Johannes Koch to America on October 25, 1909
Built by Schichau Shipyard, Danzig, Germany, 1909. 16,339 gross tons; 603 (bp) feet long; 63 feet wide. Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 15 ? knots. 2,827 passengers (246 first class, 332 second class, 2,249 third class).
Built for Hamburg-American Line, German flag, in 1909 and named Cincinnati. Hamburg-New York service. Interned at Boston 1914 owing to World War I. Seized by United States Government, American flag, in 1917 and renamed USS Covington. Torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the North Atlantic in 1918.
S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam - Carried John and Elizabeth Koch to New York arriving on February 11, 1920
Built by Harlan & Wolff Limited, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1906. 16,967 gross tons; 615 (bp) feet long; 68 feet wide. Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 16 knots. 2,886 passengers (440 first class, 246 second class, 2,200 third class).
Built for Holland - America Line, Dutch flag, in 1906 and named Nieuw Amsterdam. Rotterdam-New York service. Last major liner to be fitted with auxiliary sails. Broken up in Japan in 1932.
ss NIEUW AMSTERDAM (1906) Holland Amerika Lijn
Built by Harland & Wollf, Belfast(16967grt; 187x21m; 16kn; 686 passengers in 2 classes + 2200 steerage). Employed in Rotterdam-New York service from 1906 until sold to Osaka breakers 1932. Profile shows ship after rebuilt 1909.
http://www.omnispective.nl/vbp/profiles/nieuwadm.html
S.S. Reliance - Gustav Shutt, John W. Koch's brother-in-law, arrived October 12, 1923
Built by J.C. Tecklenborg, Geestemunde, Germany, 1920. 19,582 gross tons; 615 (bp) feet long; 71 feet wide. Steam triple expansion engines, triple screw. Service speed 16 knots. 1,010 passengers (290 first class, 320 second class, 400 third class).
Built for United American Lines, in 1914 and named Johann Heinrich Burchard. Remained incomplete through World War I. Sold to Royal Holland Lloyd, in 1916 and renamed Limburgia. Amsterdam-East Coast of South America service. Completed in 1920. Sold to United American Lines, in 1922 and renamed Reliance. Hamburg-New York service. Caught fire and burned at Hamburg 8/7/1938. Wreckage scrapped in 1941.
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