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News
News and updates of the over 200 pages on this website are
presented here in chronological order, latest update first.
Regardless of which ship we sailed on or which year - the memories we share are the same!
Updated Oct 15, 2023
A Kungsholm Story from 1969 Big waves that changed plans Phill Havard has shared this lovely memory of the Kungsholm in 1969
I am surprised how many pictures there are of folk dancers from other countries as it reminds me of a trip I made in May 1969 I am 67 yrs old. I grew up in Colwyn Bay North Wales. I joined a folk dance group in my school and one of our trips involved dancing aboard the Kungsholm in May 1969 to passengers as the ship docked in Llandudno bay. As it could not dock directly ashore, we had to be ferried aboard. Whilst dancing on the ship during the evening, the weather grew worse so much that our ferry could not dock to take us off. The ship had to sail overnight to the Isle of Man so left with us on board along with a Welsh Male Voice choir. The next day we were flown from the Isle of Man to Liverpool and then a bus took us back home to Colwyn Bay and our waiting parents. A great adventure for a 13 year old. Many thanks to Mr Harvard for sharing these newspaper clippings from his scrapbook.
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Updated March 5, 2023 Göran C-O Claesson avliden Författaren och SAL-kännaren Göran C-O Claesson har avlidit Begravningen äger rum den 29:e mars i Silverdals Kapell i Sollentuna. Läs om Kapten Carl Otto Claesson här. Boken finns att köpa online hos Bokus och Adlibris, även som Ebok |
Updated Feb 24, 2023 Farfars & Morfars resa genom livet Ny bok av Tommy Stark Tommy Stark arbetade ombord på Kungsholm från Juni 1971 till Maj 1973. Läs om boken här. Boken finns att köpa online hos Bokus och Adlibris, Läs mer om Tommy Stark här. |
Updated Jan 27, 2023 A Collection Of Letters Robert Neilson sailed on SAL ships In 2008 Mr Neilson kindly offered to share his personal memories of these cruises. Read about his voyages here..
Several letters from John M Fraser Jr have now been added
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Updated Dec 20, 2022 Merry Christmas to all friends of SAL
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Updated Dec 20, 2022 A Christmas Greeting
After his years on the SAL ships, Lars-Erik Jansson Read more about Lars-Erik Jansson here.
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Updated Aug 29, 2022 Joergen Areskough
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Updated January 13, 2022 Sadly we have received the news that Ingwar Gemzell passed away on January 11, 2022, at the age of 84. R.I.P. Read more about Ingwar Gemzell here.
Ingwar Gemzell och Rolf Mayer
Nummer 2, mars 2020, av tidningen Hem & Hyra har en stor artikel som omfattar tre uppslag om SAL-trotjänarna Ingwar Gemsell och Rolf Mayer. Se länk längre ner. Läs mer om Ingwar Gemzell och Rolf Mayer här. |
Updated Sept 29, 2021 Kungsholm Musicians Diane Moss has sent us this photo taken of the musicians on a July 1957 trip from New York. Many thanks to Diane Moss for contributing the photo. Read more about Svend Asmussen and other entertainers on board here. |
Updated May 26,, 2021 Dan Andersson has identified himself in this photo from Verandah Deck 1973. Dan mustered on in Gothenburg in June 1972, serving to the end in 1975. Dan was a Mess Waiter (Upper Deck and A-deck), Assistant Room Steward, Deck Waiter (as in the photo), Assistant Deck Steward and Bath Attendant.
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Updated March 28, 2021 A Pleasant Memory We traveled in 1946 on the Gripsholm. I was 10 years old and adventurous. During the trip to Sweden I rode in the elevator with Greta Garbo and her agent. I realized who she was and I remained as quiet as a mouse in the corner of the elevator. A pleasant memory! Elsie Martin |
Updated Dec 24, 2020 New Page Added Sune Edensvärd was Chief Radio Operator on the Gripsholm in the 1920's and later. In 1929 he married Valborg on board the Gripsholm. She worked in the Elizabeth Arden store (with the red door), on 5th Avenue in New York. As a young boy, Sune Edensvärd's son worked on the Gripsholm one voyage, as an Elevator Piccolo. A new page about Sune Edensvard has been added. Read more here Many thanks to Kristina Blakstad for contributing the photos and her grandfather's story.
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The traditional Christmas Greeting from Lars-Erik Jansson, a.k.a. Pastor Jansson.
Lars-Erik Jansson served on SAL ships 1963-64, 1966-71, and 1974-75.
For many years he was Information Officer on the Kungsholm and Gripsholm.
Read more about Lars_Erik Jansson here.
Updated July 4, 2020 Christchurch Star 1972 >Hasse Gustafsson has contributed a Read the whole article here. |
Updated May 29, 2020 Gripsholm during WWII Bill Archer has sent this photo, taken by his father from his Liberty Ship, of the gun crew.
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Updated March 5, 2020 The Reunion In Stockholm 2000 In May, 20 years will have gone by since the grand reunion took place in Stockholm. P&O Cruises Victoria, ex Kungsholm was docked in the harbor. 300 friends of the Swedish American Line gathered for a wonderful celebration. Here are 3 links to pages with photos from the reunion. Enjoy the memories! https://reunion2000.salship.se/ https://reunion2000.salship.se/#collections Mina två tröjor från Reunion i Stockholm 2000. Det blir 20 år sedan i maj. Som medarrangör fick jag en tröja av Jörgen Areskough med mitt namn inbroderat. Jag skötte marknadsföringen, ordnade festvåningen och tog emot bokningar. Jag minns att det tog i stort sett all fritid under våren 2000 med alla telefonsamtal och email som skulle besvaras. Många ringde flera gånger och ville prata i en timme. Det var också många som ringde, men inte anmälde sig till festen. Lennart Angelmo skötte administrationen och gjorde ett jättejobb med att spåra alla som betalade in avgiften utan att ange sitt namn. Och det var många. Han fick stor hjälp av sin syster som arbetade på bank. Jörgen fixade de snygga tröjorna. Kurt Hummer arrangerade en förfest kvällen innan på sin restaurang. Franz Racsz, Rolf Sternlöf och flera andra musiker ställde upp och spelade till dansen. Svend Asmussen och Kungsholms arkitekt Claes Feder skickade hälsningar till träffen. När vi kläckte idén om en reunion I Stockholm samtidigt som Victoria, ex Kungsholm, var på besök, trodde vi att kanske 30 personer skulle anmäla sig. Vi blev över 300. Vilket minne!
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Updated March 13, 2020 Chief Steward Stig Lundgren In January 2018 we posted a request for information about Chief Steward Stig Lundgren.
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Updated Feb 21, 2020 A Letter From The Drottningholm, October 20, 1943 Claire Bates has contributed a letter from her father, Alan Burley, who was in a Prisoner of War Camp in Poland – Stalag XX1. He was repatriated on the Drottningholm. Click on the image to read the full letter in PDF format. Read more about the Echange an Repatriation Voyages During WWII here,
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Updated Feb 12, 2020 32 år på bryggan
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Updated Feb 3, 2020 Radioprogram om SAL
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Updated Dec 13, 2019 Christmas Greeting From
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Updated Nov 27, 2019 Kungsholm and Gripsholm in Stockholm 1975
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Updated Nov 27, 2019 Intarsia Doors Up For Auction
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Updated Aug 30, 2019 Two Bar Boys Identified
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Updated July 31, 2019 Young Passenger and Waiter Rafael Morata Identified in Photo
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Updated July 18, 2019 Walter Capelli Identified in
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Updated Aug 20, 2018 SAL Reunion in Austria September 2019
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Updated June 3, 2019 Cygnet, a former Kungsholm tender, is still in service on Coniston Water
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Read more of this story on the Kungsholm of 1953 page.
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Updated January 18, 2019 Nils Haggård Sagaholm
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Updated Jan 16, 2019 Internee and Repatriation Reunion Gripsholm Reunion & 75th Anniversary Commemoration Former WWII internees and their families invite the public
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Updated January 13, 2019 Updated September 17, 2018 Updated August 15, 2018 New pages have been added Håkan Askman
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Updated Dec 18, 2018 God Jul We have received a Christmas greeting from a SAL veteran,
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Lars-Erik Jansson served on SAL ships 1963-64, 1966-71, and 1974-75.
For many years he was Information Officer on the Kungsholm and Gripsholm.
Read more about Lars Erik Jansson here.
Updated March 18, 2018 Lennart Angelmo
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Updated Febrary 22, 2018 Going on Today
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Updated January 19, 2018 Stig Lundgren
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Updated November 13, 2017 Gripsholm Mediterranean Cruise 1928
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Updated July 24, 2017 New photos added Jan-Erik Johansson Second Officer MS Kungsholm 1962 - 1964
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Updated July 9, 2017 Photos from the Reunion in Schladming 2017 9 more photos have been added to Franz' gallery Günther W. Hieger and Franz Havranek have contributed See Günther's photos here and Franz' here. Read about previous SAL reunions here.
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Updated March 11, 2016 Reunion 2017 Sepp Zirngast has posted this invitation to a reunion |
Updated Feb 27, 2017 New Photos Added Otto Friedrich My seven year employment on the Gripsholm and Kungsholm started in 1966. |
Updated Jan 6, 2017 Two SAL Veterans Have Left Us Sad news indeed. Second Purser Ingvar Torstensson passed away Click on the photos to read more about these SAL veterans. |
Updated Jan 4, 2017 Johan Jarekull
My seven year employment on the Gripsholm and Kungsholm started in 1966. |
Updated Dec 23, 2016 MERRY CHRISTMAS Christmas on the Gripsholm. |
Updated Oct 4, 2016 Archived pages from 1999 This website was originally hosted by Geocities in 1998, one of the first Have a look at the website from 1999.
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Updated Sept 10, 2016 Reunion 2017 The information about the Reunion 2017 is ready for download: You can book your rooms online here: Looking forward to see you all in Schladming
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Updated Sept 7, 2016 Karl-Gösta Ekblad,
”Kalle Tårta” Karl-Gösta Ekblad, "Kalle Tårta", served on the Kungsholm from 1970 to 1973. You will also find photos from the print shop on board the Kungsholm. |
Updated September 3, 2016 Folk Dancers Identified Anders Tidström has identified himself |
Updated Aug 28, 2016 WWII Exchange Voyages Stories from two readers, J Gary Dunn and Luther Strassen, |
Updated April 23, 2016 Ray Kroc, Kungsholm and Gripsholm Ray Kroc was a frequent cruise passenger Watch the trailer. Michael Keyton plays Ray Kroc.
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Updated March 13, 2016 Lars Helmer Lars Helmer served on the Kungsholm from 1969 to 1973. |
Updated March 11, 2016 Broken Link Fixed Hasse Gustafsson has reported a broken link in |
Updated March 11, 2016 One More Happy Crew Member Identified Franz Havranek has identified Bodil Zeller in two photos from this Eva-Lena Christofferson
has identified the crew members Eva-Lena has also identified folk dancers |
Updated March 11, 2016 Reunion 2017 Sepp Zirngast has posted this invitation to a reunion |
Updated March 3, 2016 Gripsholm Photos Klas Ericson, son of Gripsholm doctor Sten Ericson, |
Updated March 3, 2016 Charles Winberg, Bandleader on the Gripsholm Lis Brokmose has contributed a link to the story of Charles Kalle Winberg, This video has been created by his daughter, Kerstin Winberg. |
Updated Jan 7, 2016 Happy Crew Members Identified Eva-Lena Christofferson
has identified the crew members Eva-Lena has also identified folk dancers |
Updated Dec 3, 2015 Are you near Alang? Are you in or near Alang, India? |
Updated Nov 30, 2015 Broströms 150 Years More than 1000 guests were present when Broströms, the parent company of
See more photos here. |
Updated Nov 23, 2015 A Concert on the Kungsholm in 1957 "Guy" recently acquired a Sony reel to reel machine with tapes, He has posted one of the performances on Youtube. Listen here. |
Updated Nov 19, 2015 Kungsholm has Arrived at Alang Despite last minute attempts to save the ship from being scrapped, Read more about the Kungsholm here. |
Updated Nov 10, 2015 The End of an Era After many years of attempts to save the Kungsholm,
she has now started her A sad day, indeed. Maritime writer Peter Knego has written an account of Read more about the Kungsholm here. There are many stories about life on board the Kungsholm on this site,
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Updated November 8,, 2015 SAL-träff i Göteborg Den 28/11 kl 19.00 samlas tidigare SAL-are Anmälan till lennart@angelmo.se
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Updated November 10,, 2015 Lennart Angelmo A new page has been added about Lennart Angelmo. Lennart Angelmo served from 1967 to 1972, Read more here.
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Updated June 7, 2015 Broströms Reunion in Gothenburg Läs mer här Please note: The reunion starts at 12.00 Läs mer här |
Updated March 1, 2015 Two Facebook Groups for Kungsholm Preservation Two facebook pages exist to form an opinion to move
the Veronica, https://www.facebook.com/groups/kungsholm/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/387420748025150/
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Updated March 1, 2015 Kungsholm-fonden MS Kungsholm AB, ett fastighetsbolag som har för avsikt att
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Updated Oct 15, 2015 Rune Dahlstrand Har Avlidit Rune Dahlstrand, den siste överlevande från MS Gripsholms Han gjorde en stor insats genom att berätta om utväxlingsresorna, Läs mer om Rune Dahlstrand här. Läs mer om utväxlingsresorna under andra världskriget här.
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Updated Aug 15, 2015
Large SAL Collection Now on the Web Mr Torsten Torstensson has digitalized his large collection of |
Updated June 7, 2015 SAL Reunion in Vienna Johgann Schlögl is again organizing a SAL reunion. For more information, contact schlogl.johann@gmail.com Read more about SAL reunions here
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Updated June 15, 2015 Anna Karin Lundström MS Gripsholm and MS Kungsholm
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Karl-Gunnar Johansson, "Kalle Kli"
Read Kalle's story here. |
Berit Jacobsson (Svensson), ”Babs”
Berit Jacobsson (Svensson), "Babs", was employed as a beautician Read Berit's story here. |
En Fartygsläkares Farväl Dödsannons i Svenska Dagbladet 2015-01-25. Det framgår tydligt hur mycket erfarenheterna från SAL
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Christmas on the Atlantic. Chief Purser Curt Dawe top left.
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Updated Dec 17, 2014 Christmas Greetings from Lars-Erik Jansson This year's Christmas and New Year's greeting from Information Officer Lars-Erik Jansson consists of photos from the Gripsholm's visits to Sochi and Yalta, The Black Sea, March 31 - April 1 1964. Read more about Lars-Erik Jansson here.
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Updated Dec 16, 2014 B-G Nilson, SAL Freighters Åke Nilson, son of B-G Nilson, from 1967 Vice President of SAL, freighter operations, has contributed five private photos of the Kungsholm of 1966. See all the photos here This contribution has inspired me to start a small section about SAL's freighters. Do you have private photos of the freighters? No postcards, please. It is a general policy of this site to publish photos that can't readily be found on other sites. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, and unfortunately we can't stop anyone from copying photos from this site, even though it is considered unethical. Email to salship@yahoo.com
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Updated Dec 16, 2014 Harem Ladies Identified Lis Brokmose, Stewardess on the Gripsholm, Main Deck Midships, 1968 - 1975, has identified more Harem Ladies in Anita Poli Olsson's photo, with performer Gerrit van Triest:
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Updated Dec 3, 2014 Anita Poli Olsson In the early 1970’s, Anita Poli Olsson served some years as a shop assistant and shop manager in the NK-boutique onboard the Gripsholm and the Kungsholm. A selection of her memories and photographs has now surfaced to be shared here on www.salship.se. Anita has made available this material and her story with assistance from Hasse Gustafsson and Tommy Stark, two ex crew members who were onboard the MS Kungsholm 1971-73. Read Anita's story here. |
Updated Sept 16, 2014 More About Captain Torkel Tistrand
Per Tistrand maintains a Facebook group called **Svenska Amerika Linien** Read more about the Exchange and Repatriation voyages during WWII here.
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Exchange Ship, by Max Hill, is available at amazon.com.
Updated June 30, 2014 Gripsholm Videos from WWII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJtV5OcLK34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO9bpqtSc7A See more SAL film clips here.
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Updated June 5, 2014 Volker Roloff Volker Roloff, a true SAL veteran, has passed away. Roloff worked on the Gripsholm 1962 - 1975, as Dining Room Steward, Cabin Steward, Wine Steward, Assistant Chief Steward and Chief Steward. Read more about Volker Roloff here. |
Updated June 5, 2014 MV Azores, ex Stockholm of 1948 The Stockholm of 1948 is still sailing as the Azores. Actually it is only the hull and a few doors that still remain of the old beauty. The rest of the ship is a modern construction. Ex SAL commander, Captain Kjell Smitterberg, and ex crewmember Tommy Stark recently boarded the ship in the Swedish capital. See more photos here. |
Updated May 30, 2014 The Man Who Designed the Kungsholm of 1966 Several pages of documents and artwork from the private archives of architect and ship designer Claes Feder have been contributed by his daughters Annika Wennergren Feder and Viveka Nordling Feder. Claes Feder worked for SAL from the early 1950's to the early 1970's. From 1960 his mission was to design the Kungsholm of 1966, by ship lovers all over the world considered one of the most beautiful liners ever built. Claes Feder passed away in Portugal in 2009, leaving an unforgettable achievement in ocean liner and cruise ship history. The pages on this website have been initiated and compiled by Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson and Tommy Stark, both ex crewmembers on the beautiful Kungsholm. Read more about Claes Feder here. |
Updated May 14, 2014 "Elvis" identified Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson informs us that the crew member ”Elvis” from Greenland has identified himself as Bendt Knudsen, and he worked onboard 1973-75 mainly in the bar section on Verandah deck. Read more here. |
Updated Dec 10, 2013 Do You have Information about SAL in Canada Regretfully we have no information about SAL in Canada on this website, even though Halifax was a regular port for SAL in North America, and several cruise passengers were Canadians. Laurel Anderson McCallum has sent us an inquiry: My grandfather, Arthur Anderson, directed the Line for many year from the Winnipeg office in Manitoba, Canada. He also received an award from Sweden for long-time service with SAL. (The award was the Royal Patriotic Gold Medal from the King of Sweden). I know that he was directing the Line in 1949, but he also worked with the Line both earlier and later on, before becoming Swedish Consul in Manitoba and Western Canada from 1955-62. Laurel Anderson McCallum, granddaughter. Do you have more information? Please email salship@yahoo.com. Lisa Roos of Calgary, a relative of Arthur's wife Maj-Lis, has informed us of a book with Arthur Anderson's poetry. Find more information about the book and Arthur Anderson's bio here: www.stoftdustofourbeing.com.
Updated May 3, 2014 More about Arthur Anderson Laurel Anderson McCallum has sent us the following message: I am enjoying your site, A Tribute to the Swedish American Line. In Winnipeg, this summer at our ‘Folklorama’, we are following the theme of ‘Ports of Call’ in our Scandinavian Pavilion. I am hoping we can have our Swedish room looking somewhat like the inside of the Drottningholm, based on the fantastic pictures on your site. I am sending you a picture of one of the sailings that my grandfather, Arthur Anderson arranged on the Drottningholm in 1947. He is the smiling one in the front with his foot on the writing. My republished book of his poetry from 1934 is selling quite well; Gallivare Secretary of Culture ordered quite a few and they are slowly starting to move throughout Sweden. You are welcome to visit my site... www.stoftdustofourbeing.com Laurel Anderson-McCallum
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Updated April 25, 2014
Chief Engineer O Z Pehrson
Enid Rendahl, 94, daughter of Chief Engineer O.Z. Pehrson has contributed a photo of her father. O,Z. Pehrson mustered on the first Stockholm in 1915, and served on several SAL ships until he retired as Chief Engineer of the last Stockholm in 1950. He was also present at the launching of the Stockholm in Monfalcone in 1938, which sank outside Trieste in 1944, and never served for SAL. |
Updated April 9, 2014 Save The Kungsholm Hopeful news concerning the revived plans to bring the Kungsholm of 1966 back to Gothenburg, have been posted by Mr Lars G Hallgren on the Facebook page Save The Kungsholm. Mr Hallgren, who has been working with the project since 2006, writes that serious discussions are being held with Stena Line about docking the Kungsholm at Stigbergskajen, from where the SAL ships departed for the Atlantic crossings. If these discussions, and negotiations with the city officials, are succesful, it would be a fantastic event in time for the 100th anniversary of The Swedish American Line in 2015. Read more about the plans to bring the Kungsholm back to Gothenburg here. |
Updated April 1, 2014 A New Guestbook The guestbook is one of the most popular pages on this website. Unfortunately, the guestbook was not functioning well during 2013, so a new, improved, guestbook has been installed. See the new guestbook here, and please go ahead and sign it today.
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Updated March 29, 2014 More About the Kungsholm Tenders See the latest photos of one of the still existing Kungsholm tenders here. Douglas Hodgson of Coniston Launch has sent us the following message: We bought Cygnet in June 2013 from Steve Critchley at Cardiff Waterbus. I have been looking at your website a great deal since then trying to find out about the history of Kungsholm and her tenders. I have also been looking at Horst Reichhart's videos on Youtube, Cygnet now operates on our 'Wildcat Island Cruise' on Coniston Water. This cruise lasts about 1 hour and cruises down to Torver and Sunny Bank first, both popular stops for walkers, then Cygnet visits Wild Cat Island, then travels north to Brantwood, the former home of John Ruskin, which is open to the public. Wild Cat Island (real name Peel Island) is an island featured in Arthur Ransome's book Swallows and Amazons. The island was also used in the 1970s film Swallows and Amazons. When not in service, Cygnet is moored at Pier Cottage, the former base for Bluebird, the jet powered boat used by Donald Campbell on his last fatal bid to better 300mph on water. We are currently putting together some information signs/boards to put inside Cygnet to tell passengers about it's history and the history of Kungsholm. If you have any photos of the tenders (or even better of Cygnet), that are not currently on your website this would be most helpful. Any video files would also be useful. We are also trying to build up a list of all of the places that Cygnet and Kungsholm have visited in the past and help with this would also be greatly appreciated. Cygnet runs from April 1 in 2014. Regards Douglas Hodgson If anyone has more photos or a video of this tender, please email salship@yahoo.com See more photos of the Cygnet at Coniston Launch here.
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Updated Jan 19, 2014 Kungsholm Tenders Peter Walker has sent us an update of one of Kungsholm's tenders See two photos here. Please note that the former tenders are sometimes sold, or scrapped, Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson, former crew member on the Kungsholm,
Picture of one of the Cygnet's sisters, 'Arklet', in Inversnaid Harbour on Loch Lomond.
Read more about all the tenders here. |
Updated March 18, 2014 Lis Brokmose Lis Brokmose,
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Updated March 16, 2014 The News Archive News posted here before January 2012 have been moved to the News Archive.
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Updated March 10, 2014 How to Enjoy a Smörgåsbord
Read the instructions here. |
Updated March 6, 2014
SAL Menues
See the menues here.
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Updated March 6, 2014
SAL Recipes
See the recipes here.
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Updated March 2, 2014 SAL Reunion in October 2013 Many thanks to Franz Havranek for uploading photos from the SAL Reunion in 2013. See all the photos in the Salship picture gallery here. Read more about past reunions here. |
Updated Feb 21, 2014 Kjell Smitterberg Captain Kjell Smitterberg, Many thanks to Tommy Stark and Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson,
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Från Livbåt Till Flytande Palats Boken har länge varit slutsåld i inbunden Boken kan beställas hos de etablerade nätbokhandlarna. |
Updated Feb 12, 2014 An Atlantic Crossing on the Kungsholm in 1954 The Swedish Film Archive has posted the classic SAL film from 1954, "Semester på Atlanten", showing Mr and Mrs Axberg's voyage across the sea on the Kungsholm of 1953. This film also exists in an English language version, but this is the Swedish version. Many thanks to Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson for this link. See the clip here. See more film clips here.
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Updated Feb 4, 2014 More News About the Kungsholm of 1966 The daily newspaper GöteborgsPosten reports
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Updated Feb 4.2014 Visiting Broströmska Villan Lars-Erik Jansson, Information Officer on the Kungsholm and |
Updated Feb 4.2014 A Farewell Dinner on the Kungsholm |
Updated Feb 3, 2014 Two Facebook Groups for Kungsholm Preservation Two facebook pages exist to form an opinion to move
the Veronica, https://www.facebook.com/groups/kungsholm/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/387420748025150/ Patrick Zeller and L-O Rydén have reminded us that Veronica is up for sale. Read about previous projects to save the Kungsholm. |
Updated Feb 2.2014, 2013 Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson, started as a potato peeler on |
Updated Jan 19, 2014 Kungsholm Tenders Peter Walker has sent us an update of one of Kungsholm's tenders See two photos here. Please note that the former tenders are sometimes sold, or scrapped, Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson, former crew member on the Kungsholm, Picture of one of the tenders in Inversnaid, Loch Lomond.
Read more about all the tenders here. |
Updated Dec 20, 2013 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Ett Julminne Från 1970 From the Dawe collection. Click on the picture to enlarge. |
Other sites with information about SAL:s ships |
This site is not about refurbishings, altered doorways, or funnel colors. The purpose of the site is primarily to describe the life and people on board the "White Viking Fleet" - the emigrants, the tourists, and the business passengers who crossed the stormy North Atlantic to reach America, - and the cruise members, sailing smoothly from port to port in a world of luxury, many of them coming back for a new cruise, time and time again. And, of course the crew, who worked and lived on the ships for months and years - in some cases decades - regarding them as their homes. For a more detailed technical description of the ships, however, we recommend the following fine sites: |
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C-O Claesson On the Bridge 1923-55 |
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About Us Life as a Crew Member |
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Torkel Tistrand Sea Personnel Manager |
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Carl-Gustav Kruse Chief Purser |
Hugo Bilén Chief Purser |
Evert Eriksson Chief Purser |
Poul V Lange Chief Purser |
Lennart Angelmo Second Purser |
Jörgen Areskough Second Purser |
Ingvar Torstensson Second Purser |
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Gerhard Kummer Chief Steward |
C-G Quant Chief Steward |
Volker Roloff Chief Steward |
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Juan Martinez Waiter |
Patrick Zeller Waiter |
Gustav Weber Petterson Waiter |
Lars Warlin Assistant Waiter |
Tommy Stark Deck Waiter |
Hans "Hasse" Gustafsson Deck Waiter |
C-G Edhardt Assistant Deck Steward |
Johan Jarekull Hyttnisse, Assistant Deck Steward |
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The Neilson Family, Gripsholm and Kungsholm |
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