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Motorship Gripsholm a New Departure gevare reer ttht TWIN SCREW M. S. GRIPSHOLM—SWEDISH AMERICAN LINE HE twin screw motor liner Gripsholm designed and built by the English firm of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., for the Swedish American Line was accepted by the owners after successful contract trials on Nov. 5, 1925—Filip Lindahl, of the Brostroms Lines Agency and Sir John Biles & Co., the owners’ naval architects, supervised the construction. Her maiden West- ward voyage between Sweden and America began leaving FIRST CLASS GALLERY “A” DECK Gothenberg Noy. 21 and ended arriving New York Nov. AUXILIARY ENGINE ROOM TO SWITCHBOARD GALLERY 30 after an elapsed time of 8 days and 13 hours. According to reports all parts of the new ship functioned well. On_ the power and speed trials, Nov. 5 a high mean speed of 17.99 knots was attained, the engines developing a total of 17,155 in- dicated and 14,000 shaft horse- power at 130.8 average revolu- tions per minute.. On the west- ward leg of the first voyage the average speed was 16.05 knots at 113 revolutions per minute with an average daily fuel consumption for all pur- poses of 64.75 tons. Named after one of Sweden’s historic shrines, the sixteenth century castle of Gripsholm, in- terior decorations and furniture conform in design to the gen- eral style and period of the fa- mous halls of the castle. The principal hull particulars are: Length overall 574 feet 6 inches; length between perpendiculars, 550 feet; breadth extreme, 74 feet 3 inches; breadth molded, (Continued on page 48) 19 MAIN ENGINE ROOM TOP PLATFORM