KUNGSHOLM: 1953 - First & Tourist class deck plan from 1961 Union Steam Ship Co. of N. Zealand and Tourist Class Dining Room

and Tourist Class Dining Room and cabin

the country house Reading and Writing Room

from the Observation Club up on Boat Deck down to former immigrant cubbies on F Deck

The feds stepped in mid-1938 and took the fleet away

Plans show three decks - Sun

KUNGSHOLM: 1953 - First & Tourist class deck plan from 1961 Union Steam Ship Co. of N. Zealand and Tourist Class Dining RoomSwedish American Line: A fold out (23" by 27") transatlantic plan dated 1961 for the KUNGSHOLM. Study this plan and you can see how advanced the Swedish flagged ship was when introduced in 1953. Four years later fleetmate GRIPSHOLM adopted the design with slight modifications. Seven decks are shown. What is striking is the symmetry in cabin lay out. Class by class, corridor by corridor, deck by deck, most cabins are identical in shape. That made