MS Gripsholm was an ocean liner , built in 1924 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne , England, for the Swedish American Line for use in the Gothenburg - New York City run. She was of great historical importance as the first ship built for transatlantic express service as a diesel -powered motor vessel , rather than as a steamship .
5-529: MS Gripsholm may refer to one of these passenger ships: MS Gripsholm (1924) , an ocean liner operated by the Swedish American Line, 1925–1954 MS Gripsholm (1957) , a combined ocean liner/cruise ship operated by the Swedish American Line, 1957–1975 MS Gripsholm (1965) , a cruise ship operated by Transocean Tours 1996–1997 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with
10-885: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles MS Gripsholm (1924) From 1927 onwards, the Gripsholm made transatlantic passenger crossings and regular recreational cruises. Gripsholm was one of the first ships to call at the Canadian Pier 21 immigration terminal in Halifax, Nova Scotia and made 101 trips with immigrants to Pier 21. From 1942 to 1946, the United States Department of State chartered Gripsholm as an exchange and repatriation ship, carrying Japanese and German nationals to exchange points where she then picked up US and Canadian citizens (and British married to Americans or Canadians) to bring home to
15-614: The Japanese, and Stockholm or Lisbon with the Germans. After the war, Gripsholm was used to deport inmates of US prisons to Italy and Greece. The Swedish American Line sold Gripsholm to Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1954, who renamed her MS Berlin . As MS Berlin , the ship resumed Canadian immigration voyages to Pier 21 in Halifax, making 33 immigrant voyages before the ship was retired. An image of MS Berlin arriving at Pier 21 in 1957 became
20-728: The USA and Canada. She also made at least two voyages repatriating British and Commonwealth POW's in the spring of 1944 to Belfast and summer of the same year to Liverpool . In this service she sailed under the auspices of the International Red Cross , with a Swedish captain and crew. The ship made 12 round trips, carrying a total of 27,712 repatriates. Exchanges took place at neutral ports; at Lourenço Marques (now Maputo ) in Mozambique or Mormugoa (now Goa ) in Portuguese India with
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