Concept and Background
The Swedish American Line had risen to popularity on the transatlantic and cruise traffic during the late 1920s with their two purpose-built ships, MS Gripsholm (1925) and MS Kungsholm (1928). During the mid-1930s the company begun planning a new, larger ship to replace one or several of the older ones. At approximately 30,000 GRT the new ship would be nearly half again as large as the Kungsholm (then the largest ship in the SAL fleet), but due to the differences in passenger demographics she would carry only 1295 passengers compared to the 1544 of the Kungsholm. As with her purpose-built predecessors, it was decided to equip the ship with diesel engines instead of steam turbines favoured by most transatlantic shipping companies of the day. However, with a service speed of 19 knots the new ship would be able to offer faster crossings than the previous SAL ships. The new ship was to be named Stockholm, and would become the second SAL ship to bear the name.
Read more about this topic: MS Stockholm (1941)
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