Gripsholm IDNo 5042364

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Passenger Liner GRIPSHOLM, undated, location Gothenborg Postcard, 2nd postcard location New York
Collection of Bangsbo Museum, Frederikshavn - Photographer unknown

Her details and history (Source: Miramar)

IDNo: 5042364
Year: 1925
Name: GRIPSHOLM
Flag: SWE
Type: Passenger/cargo (rf)
Launch Date: 26.11.24
Date of completion: 7.11.25
Tons: 17993
Length overall: 174.6
LPP: 168.5
Beam: 22.7
Country of build: GBR
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Location of yard: High Walker
Yard No: 999
Number of
screws/Mchy/ 2D
Speed(kn): 17

Subsequent History:
[1949-50 rebuilt, Lg 179.8m oa, 19105gt] - 55 BERLIN


Disposal Data:
BU La Spezia 26.11.66 [Terrestre Marittima]

Kind regards from Hjoerring
Kent

[Dierk Bauer]

Hi Kent, thank you very much for scanning and sharing

Her history - Source: Wikipedia

MS Gripsholm was an ocean liner, built in 1924 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, for the Swedish American Line for use in the Gothenburg-New York City run. She was of great historical importance as the first ship built for transatlantic express service as a diesel-powered motor vessel, rather than as a conventional steamship. Within forty years, however, all major passenger vessels would be diesel-powered.

From 1927 onwards, the Gripsholm was used as a cruise ship alongside transatlantic crossings. From 1942 to 1946, the United States Department of State chartered Gripsholm as an exchange and repatriation ship, carrying Japanese[3] and German nationals to exchange points where she then picked up US and Canadian citizens (and British married to Americans or Canadians) to bring home to the USA and Canada. In this service she sailed under the auspices of the International Red Cross, with a Swedish captain and crew. The ship made 12 round trips, carrying a total of 27,712 repatriates. Exchanges took place at neutral ports; at Louren?o Marques in Mozambique or Mormugoa in Portuguese India with the Japanese, and Stockholm or Lisbon with the Germans.

After the war, Gripsholm was used to deport inmates of US prisons to Italy and Greece.

The Swedish American Line sold Gripsholm to Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1954, who renamed her MS Berlin.

The ship was sold for scrap in 1966.

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and here as BERLIN - postcard
Collection of Bangsbo Museum, Frederikshavn - Photographer unknown


Kind regards from Hjoerring
Kent