An item reported that the Swedish steamship Stockholm (the former Potsdam of the Holland Amerika Lijn) was sold to the newly founded Norwegian company Atlas to be rebuilt as a whale factory ship.(1) She was built in 1900 by Blohm&Voss at Hamburg, Germany with a tonnage of 12.765 gross and 7.690 net tons.
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1. Launched on 15 December 1899 for the Dutch shipping company Holland-Amerika Lijn and used for the line Rotterdam-New York. Sold to the Swedish American Line was she renamed Stockholm and her first voyage for her new owner begun on 15 December 1915. Chartered in 1919 by the USA as troop transport from soldiers returning from Europe. Rebuilt as the whale factory ship Solglimt at Götaverken. In 1940 again sold, becoming property of the company A/S Thor Dahil. In January 1941 captured by the German merchant raider Pinguin (former Kandelfels) and used as the victualler Sonderburg. In 1942 heavily damaged during an Allied air attack on the French harbour Cherbourg and scuttled there by the Germans on 15 June 1944. Two years later partly blown up to clear the shipway. What remained was broken up in 1947 in England.
