Word: kungsholm
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...harbor last week. A Navy blimp, helicopters, patrol boats, tugs and water-tossing fireboats hovered around her. A "home-longing pennant"-42 meters long for the 42 months she was abuilding-fluttered from her aftermast. Other liners roared their welcomes to the Swedish American Line's Kungsholm* newest addition to the North Atlantic fleet and a big sister to the Gripsholm...
...from the fastest (19 knots) or biggest (22,071 tons) member of that fleet, the Kungsholm justified all Sweden's pride in her. She has an atmosphere of quiet elegance. All cabins have a bath and their own air-conditioning controls; all are outside...
...Kungsholm also looked like a handsome moneymaker because of the ease with which she can switch accommodations depending on her bookings. Although designed for 626 tourist-and 176 first-class passengers for the North Atlantic run, one entire deck can be converted from first to tourist by closing two doors. On cruises (400 passengers), a children's playroom becomes a snack bar; two cargo hatches, swimming pools...
...confirmation," declared Bobby-Soxer Karin Eriksson; "I don't want to be a slave to any God." "And I don't go to church because I cannot stand the overbearing condescending manners of preachers," stated Gunnel Sandstrom. "What we need," said 18-year-old Gustaf Renneus of Kungsholm, "is a priest who is also a sportsman, one who talks our language without any humbug...
Only a block from the Hudson River pier where the Normandie burned and sank five years ago, fire broke out one day last week on the John Ericsson, formerly the Swedish liner Kungsholm. For three hours, fire engines and boats fought the flames while clouds of yellowish smoke billowed over the 85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, tied up at the same pier and engaged in loading 2,200 passengers for her scheduled sailing that afternoon. The 20,200-ton John Ericsson, a troopship during the war, is owned by the Maritime Commission and operated by the United States Lines. With...