Welcome to our Stockholm website celebrating this little known and ill fated ship. The Stockholm (1938) was a little known and ill fated ship with a tragically brief life. It was intended that she was to have re-established Swedish American Line as the principal concern on the transatlantic service from Scandinavia. She was to have been the largest ship built for Swedish American Line at that time and a replacement for the ageing Drottningholm, which by then 30 years old and a North Atlantic veteran. She was to have served on the transatlantic service and on cruises. Sadly the Second World War intervened and she never entered service with Swedish American Line. But she was to have been their finest liner of the interwar period.  We can only wonder what might have been.

She was requisitioned by the Italians as a troopship and soon became a casualty of the Second World War when she was sunk in 1944 by the retreating Germans as the Allies invaded Italy. Swedish American Line would have to wait until 1965 and the entry into service of the last Kungsholm before they got anything like a ship equalling the quality and scale of this lost Stockholm of 1938. This is the sad story of this wartime Stockholm.

M.S. STOCKHOLM 1938

Her Regular Service Route: Sweden to the United States of America (USA)

Gothenburg to New York transatlantic service

"THE TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING"

SVENSKA AMERIKA LINIEN (SAL), GOTHENBURG

(SWEDISH AMERICAN LINE)