ssrotterdam

Shorpy has a beautifully restored panorama of what appears to be the same location, only the camera is on the shore. This is Holland-America Line's dock at Hoboken, N.J., with North German Lloyd's (NDL) facilities on the left. www.shorpy.com/node/10113 (Click on thumbnail to view large panorama) More info on SS Rotterdam (IV), built 1908 www.halpostcards.com/unofficial/rot4.html

I (and my parents and sister) sailed from that very same dock, on the Holland-America Line's MAASDAM, in August, 1956. After a nine-day voyage, we landed in ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands.

Possibly from this family -- de Crombrugghe de Picquendaele gw2.geneanet.org/idesrotsart1?lang=en&m=N&v=de%20... But I don't see a match for the J. initial. There do seem to be three branches to the Belgian aristocratic family: de Crombrugghe de Picquendaele, de Crombrugghe de Schipsdaele, de Crombrugghe de Looringhe

This may be little Georges, Georges de Crombrugghe de Looringhe, born 1909 gw1.geneanet.org/gounou?lang=en&pz=auguste&nz=dum... If so, his mother is the former Madeleine de Kerchove de Denterghem d'Exaerde 1882-1966 NYT of September 19, 1915 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50816FA385B1773... reports that she and her husband had become separated in Belgium some months before. Having discovered where the other was, they missed each other crossing the Atlantic!!

Eduard (or sometimes Edward or Édouard) Tak (1883-1943), violinist www.stokowski.org/Principal_Musicians_San_Francisco_Symph...