Selandia

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Selandia is an oceangoing, diesel engine-driven ship, built at Burmeister & Wain Shipyard in Copenhagen, Denmark and launched on November 4, 1911.

Selandia was one of three such ships ordered by the Danish trading firm East Asiatic Company for service between Scandinavia, Genoa, Italy, and Bangkok, Thailand. It was the world's first ever ocean-going diesel-powered ship.

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