Swedish
American Line (SAL)
(Svenska Amerika Linien) (Est. 1914) |
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The
Swedish American Line was founded in November 1914 by the Swedish ship
owner
Dan Broström. The Rederiaktiebolaget Sverige-Nordamerika initiated a
direct
Gothenburg- In
1925 the company was renamed Svenska Amerika Linien (Swedish American
Line).
The first newly constructed vessels were acquired in 1925 and 1928. In
March
1923 the Swedish American Line announced that Armstrong Withworth &
Co in Three
ships named During
World War II the Drottningholm and the Gripsholm were used as
repatriation
ships and made 33 voyages to exchange approximately 30,000 prisoners of
war,
diplomats, women and children, between the warfaring nations. The SAL's
Atlantic route played an important part in the 20th century emigration
from
Scandinavia to |