Swedish American Line was a Swedish passenger shipping line. It was founded in December 1914 under the name Rederiaktiebolaget Sverige-Nordamerika and began ocean liner service from Gothenburg to New York in 1915. In 1925 the company changed its name to Svenska Amerika Linien / Swedish American Line.
Swedish American Line
Greta Garbo and Mauritz Stiller on board the SS Drottningholm in 1925, en route to the United States.
MS Kungsholm of 1928, with her original black hull colour.
Stigbergskajen quay in Gothenburg where the steamers of the Swedish American Line moored, and the port terminal "The American Shed". Shown in 1944.
SS Potsdam was a steam ocean liner that was launched in Germany in 1899 for Holland America Line. In 1915 Swedish American Line acquired her and renamed her Stockholm.
Painting of Potsdam in about 1910
The whaling factory ship Solglimt. Note the new masts, and the stern chute for hauling whale carcasses aboard.
RAF photographs of Cherbourg Harbour during and after an air raid in 1942, showing Sonderburg during and after being bombed
Part of Stockholm's crew on deck in Gothenburg in 1915