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Compendium of the World’s Passenger Ships
My blog contains mini-histories and photos of 2200 ships loaded in a random order. It is a data listing of liners, ferries, cruise and troop ships; every passenger carrying ship over 10000 tons dating from 1858 to the newbuilds of today.
Tag Archives: Swedish America Line
No.639 Stockholm launched in 1940
29,307grt intended for Swedish-America Line from CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Sabaudia 1941 Italia SAN Bombed Trieste 1944, scrapped by 1949
No.412 Gripsholm launched in 1924
17,993grt for Swedish-America Line from Armstrong, Whitworth, Newcastle Berlin 1955 North German Lloyd Scrapped in La Spezia 1966 Image: Percy Loomis Sperr & Beken of Cowes
No.884 Gripsholm launched in 1956
23,191grt for Swedish America Line from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente Navarino 1974 MA Karageorgis Samantha 1983 Multiship Italia Regent Sea 1984 Regent Cruises Sea 1997 Antonios Lelakis Sank en route breakers 2001 Image attribution: Bob Scott, Gordon Dalzell & Rick Garcia
No.940 Kungsholm launched in 1965
26,678grt for Swedish America Line from John Brown, Clydebank IMO: 6512354 Sea Princess 1979 P&O Line Victoria 1995 P&O Line Mona Lisa 2002 Holiday Kreuzfahrten Oceanic II 2007 Louis Cruise Line The Scholar Ship 2007 The Scholar Ship Veronica 2010 … Continue reading
No.468 Kungsholm launched in 1928
20,223grt for Swedish-America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg John Ericsson 1942 US War Shipping Administration Italia 1948 Home Lines Imperial Bahama 1964 Freeport Bahama Scrapped in Bilbao 1965 IMO: 5516547 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Kungsholm_(1928) Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & Christer Gustafsson
No.69 Noordam launched in 1901
12,531grt for Holland-America Line Harland & Wolff, Belfast Kungsholm 1922 Chartered to Swedish-America Line Noordam 1924 Holland-America Line Scrapped Netherlands 1928 Image copyright Kungsholm: http://Captainalbert.com Chartered for just under two years to the Swedish America Line
