Gripsholm - Berlin

 

 

These pages are devoted to postcards and photographs of the Swedish America Liner Gripsholm (1) of 1925, later sold to Norddeutsche Lloyd as their Berlin.

 

The first new Swedish American Liner was the Gripsholm (1), built in Newcastle in 1925. She was the first diesel-engined transatlantic liner, and operated on Swedish American's Gothenburg-New York routes. She received a major refit in 1950, receiving a new bow and funnels. Gripsholm (1) was sold to Norddeutsche Lloyd in 1954, and renamed Berlin. Her first voyage for Norddeutsche Lloyd was between Bremen and New York, leaving January 8th, 1955. She was broken up in La Spezia in 1966.

 

 

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Gripsholm (1)

(Swedish America: 1925-54)

 

The first new Swedish American Liner was the Gripsholm, built in Newcastle in 1925. She was the first diesel-engined transatlantic liner, and operated on Swedish American's Gothenburg-New York routes. She received a major refit in 1950, receiving a new bow and funnels. Gripsholm was sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1954, and renamed Berlin.

 

 

Swedish American postcards of Gripsholm, prior to 1950 refit.

 

 

 

 

Two variations of a Swedish American art card of the Kungsholm of 1928, with Gripsholm in the background.

 

 

Real Photographs (Liverpool) postcard of Gripsholm, prior to 1950 refit.

 

Swedish American postcard of Gripsholm, after the 1950 refit.

 

A-B (serial number 27) postcard of Gripsholm and Swedish Lloyd's Suecia at Gothenburg.

 

Jolln A.Wilkersen postcard of Kungsholm (2), Gripsholm (1) and Drottningholm in Gothenburg.

 

 

 

 

 

Berlin

(NDL: 1954-66)

 

Gripsholm was sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1954, and renamed Berlin. Her first voyage for NDL was between Bremen and New York, leaving January 8th, 1955. She was broken up in La Spezia in 1966.

 

 

Official NDL cards of Berlin are shown below.

 

 

This photographic postcard of Berlin at New York was published by Wilhelm Worthmann of Bremen, serial number 355.

 

Roland-Marie (France) postcard of Berlin.

 

This postcard of Berlin at Bremerhaven was published by Carl Strack of Bremerhaven, serial number 715/1.

 

 

 

 

 

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