First upload in a long time.
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Possibly one of the most important ships ever build, M/S Selandia was the very first diesel powered ship build ever.
Build in 1912 at Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen for the Lauritzen Line. During her maiden voyage she crossed 22,000 miles of ocean without any major breakdowns. She sailed for the Lauritzen Line for 25 years before she was sold to a French company. She was sunk of Japan in 1943.
The ship, MS Selandia was built in 1912, as the FIRST ocean going motor vessel. She was built for the Danish East Asiatic (Ostasiatiske Kompagni) as part of a class of 5 ships, of which one Fionia was sold to Hamburg Amerika line (HAPAG), and in to honor her Danish origin was named Christian X, after the king of Danemark at that time.
Selandia herself was never a part of the Lauritzen Line. In 1936 she was sold out of the EAC fleet to Norway and later Finland (1940) and renamed Tornator. As Tornator she was chartered by a Japanese company she sunk after stranding off Omaisaki bay, between Nagoya and Yokohama.
The drawing itself is of excellent quality Thiel, but the hull colors are wrong, as East Asiatic Company ships, which carried passengers were grey with red boot-topping. Cargo ships were black with white line at shelter-deck level. I also believe that she naver carried sails.
Ah yes, sorry about the history fail back there. I was using a public terminal and didn't have my books available, so I was going by memory alone.
As for the colours, you're probably right about the grey part. The picture came out of a forty year old book so some of the colours might have deteriorated. Having seen a painting of selandia though, I'm certain about the green. At least in the early years.