MS Gripsholm (1957)
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The Gripsholm in Hamburg, August 1973
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Route | Gothenburg – New York City |
Builder | Ansaldo Shipyard |
Cost | £7,000,000 [1] |
Christened | by Princess Margarethe[1] |
Completed | 1957 |
Maiden voyage | 14 May 1957 [1] |
In service | 2 April 1957 |
Out of service | 1997-2001 |
Fate | Sold for scrap in 2001, sunk on the way to the scrapyard, 12 July 2001 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 23,150 gt |
Length | 192.41 m (631.3 ft)[1] |
Beam | 24.95 m (81.9 ft)[1] |
Draft | 8.49 m (27.9 ft)[1] |
Decks | 8[1] |
Installed power | 12,085 kW (16,206 hp) |
Propulsion | 2 Gotaverken 9-cyl diesels[1] |
Speed | 18 kn (33 km/h) |
Capacity | 760[1] |
Crew | 365[1] |
MS Gripsholm was a combined
In 1971 she was laid up for 3 months in Göteborg, being converted into a pure cruise ship, thus ending her Transatlantic career.
In 1975 she was sold to the Karageorgis Lines, who named her MS Navarino and used her on Mediterranean routes until 1981, when she was damaged in a grounding off Patmos.
After some repair difficulties, in 1984 the vessel became the first ship of the newly formed Regency Cruises, and was named MS Regent Sea. In 1995, Regency went bankrupt, and Regent Sea was auctioned off to United States American Cruise Line, who started on a conversion to a casino ship, but which was never completed due to bankruptcy of the new owner.
In early 2001 the ship was sold for scrap and began a journey under tow to breakers in
External links
- The Great Ocean Liners: Gripsholm (II)
- A Tribute to the Swedish American Line: Gripsholm 1957-1975
- (in Swedish) Fakta om Fartyg: MS Gripsholm (1957)
- Svenska Amerika Linien
References
- ^ ISBN 2-8315-1327-8.