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"Selandia - The World's First Oceangoing Diesel Vessel". The story about this extraordinary ship - and the story about how the shipbuilding company Burmeister & Wain developed the diesel engine into ship propulsion purposes - is told in this book. 240 pages, released February 2012 in an English and a Danish edition by Forlaget Nautilus. Author is Anders Riis, Danish shipping journalist. ISBN 978-87-90924-79-9 (English language), ISBN 978-87-90924-75-1 (Danish language)
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