MS Stockholm (1940)
The second 1941 Stockholm after her launching at the shipyards of Monfalcone in March 1940 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| First ship (1938) | |
| Name | MS Stockholm |
| Ordered | November 1936 |
| Builder | Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy |
| Laid down | 10 April 1937 |
| Launched | 29 May 1938 |
| Maiden voyage | May 1939 (planned) |
| Fate | Destroyed in a fire, 19 December 1938, subsequently scrapped |
| General characteristics (planned) | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 30,390 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 194.61 m (638 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 25.35 m (83 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 11.82 m (38 ft 9 in) |
| Decks | 10 |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | Three propellers |
| Speed | 19.50 kn (36.11 km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 22 lifeboats |
| Capacity | 1295 passengers, 620 (cruising) |
| Crew | 600 |
| Second ship (1941-1944) | |
| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Builder | Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy |
| Yard number | 1203 |
| Launched | 10 March 1940 |
| Completed | October 1941 |
| Fate | Sunk by British bombers, 6 July 1944, scrapped 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 30,390 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 195.92 m (642 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 25.35 m (83 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 10.78 m (35 ft 4 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | Three propellers |
| Speed | 19.50 kn (36.11 km/h) |
| Capacity | 1295 passengers |
MS Stockholm was the name of two near-identical ocean liners built by Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy between 1936 and 1941 for the Swedish American Line. Neither of the ships entered service for the company that had ordered them—the first ship was entirely destroyed by fire during construction in 1938, while the second was completed in 1941 but immediately sold to the Italian government as a troopship. The second ship served for three years in the Regia Marina and Kriegsmarine under the name MS Sabaudia, until sunk by British bombers outside Trieste in 1944. It is unknown if she was ever actually used as a troopship.