Holland America Line was founded in 1873 as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company (NASM), a shipping and passenger line.

It was headquartered in Rotterdam and provided service to the Americas and became known as the Holland America Line.

The company's first ocean liner was the Rotterdam, which sailed its maiden voyage from the Netherlands to New York City on Oct. 15, 1872.

• The line was a principal carrier of immigrants from Europe to the United States until well after the turn of the century, carrying 850,000 to new lives in the New World.
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• In 1895, the company offered its first vacation cruise; its second leisure cruise, from New York to the Holy Land, was in 1910.
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• In 1989, Holland America Line was purchased by the  Carnival Corp., the largest cruise company in the world.

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