A Tribute to the Swedish American Line The White Viking Fleet 14 Years on the Internet
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These pictures belong to Chief Purser Curt Dawe's Collection.

Please help us identify the persons on the photos.
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Please email us if you can identify persons whose names aren't noted below the pictures. If you recognize yourself or a relative, and in any way are offended by the picture being published, please send an email and the picture will be removed.

This is most likely the Gripsholm of 1925, Curt Dawe's first ship.

D405.

D400.

D401

D402. A pilot on board.

D403. Around the clock, there were always look-outs keeping a keen watch on the bridge. Marianne Gustafsson has recognized her grandmother Anna Maria (Maja) Beckman, standing in the back row wearing a striped bathing suit. (Mrs Beckman is wearing the same bathing suit in a private photo.) She was a stewardess 1954/55 - 1963, most of the time on the Gripsholm, but also on the Stockholm at the time of the collision with Andrea Doria in 1954.

D404. The Belle of the Bridge.

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