Dec 14, 2006 - Sale 2098

Sale 2098 - Lot 667

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SWEDISH-AMERICAN LINE.) "Gripsholm." M/S "Gripsholm." Photo album containing 56 large format silver prints, most showing the production of the ship and a few showing the vessel upon completion and after the launching; mounted on thick card stock; many of the photos with the embossed stamp of Burmeister & Wain, builder of the ship. Oblong folio, dyed calf, a bit worn at extremities. with--An offprint of an article concerning the ship which originally appeared in the December 1925 issue of "Motorship." Copenhagen, circa 1925

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The "Gripsholm" was the first diesel-engined trans-Atlantic passenger liner. She became an important repatriation ship during the Second War. She was sold in 1954 and renamed "Berlin" by her new owner, North German Lloyd.