Published Jun 6th, 2020, 6/6/20 4:04 pm
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1:1 scale Danish MS Selandia and later Finnish Tornator. She was the first motorship in the world built for sea traffic. When she wrecked in Japan in 1942, her Finnish crew was taken to a POW camp in Australia.
History | |
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Name: | MS Selandia |
Namesake: | Sjælland |
Owner: | East Asiatic Company |
Route: | between Scandinavia, Genoa, Italy, and Bangkok, Thailand |
Builder: | Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen |
Yard number: | 276[1] |
Launched: | 4 November 1911 |
Completed: | February 1912 |
Fate: | wrecked Omaisaki, Japan 26 January 1942[1] |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage: | 6,800 dwt; 4964 GRT |
Length: | 370 ft (112.8 m) |
Beam: | 53 ft (16.2 m) |
Installed power: | 2 x eight-cylinder, four-cycle, 1,250 hp diesel engines |
Propulsion: | twin-screw |
Speed: | 12 knots[1] |
Progress | 100% complete |
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