Casgliadau Arlein

Port Broadside view of S.S. CHILE, with Watermans boat, about 1936.

The world's first successful ocean-going motor vessel was the Selandia, built in 1912 by Burmeister & Wain of Copenhagen for the well-known Danish East-Asiatic Line. The 6,956 gross ton Chile seen here was a later sister vessel built by the same firm in 1915. These vessels had a particularly distinctive outline, in that they had no funnels; gases from the engine were exhausted through pipes incorporated in the mizzen mast (third from the bow). (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.)