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Lovely drawing, Novice. There's a stray blue pixel on one of the bow port holes...

Thank you for your input.
@Charybdis well spotted, and I hope it has been fixed now.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

The motorship Nordbo was the first one built for the Dampskibsselskabet "NORDEN" A/S in 1923, built by Burmeister & Wain.



The ship was the first, and smaller than eight more half-sister ships, all built by B&W and Nakskov Shipyard.
The Nordbo was in the Far East, when Denmark was occupied, seeking shelter in the Japanese port of Kobe, the ship was later seized by the Japanese in March 1942 and was sunk in September 1943 by the US submarine USS Sargo (SS-188).

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Always nice to see a danish merchant vessel. Especially in Novice's fine edition. Well done Your text bring backs memories from my younger days in 1976 where I worked that summer in Nakskov Shipyard

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DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Excellent work!

The following ship had four names under four flags. Built as tanker the SS War Ayran, as part of WW1 shipping program she was sold post war to Belgium as Nervier and converted to a dry cargo ship. In 1927 she was transferred, still under the Belgian flag to the Compagnie Africaine de Navigation and in 1930 when the Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) had taken over the Lloyd Royal Belge, all operations were under the flag of Compagnie Maritime Belge (Lloyd Royal). In 1938 the ship was sold to Italy as Marzocco and in 1940 was seized by Great Britain and was wrecked. As a result the ship was scuttled as a blockship at Scapa Flow.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Nice work!

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And very nice too Novice, always a pleasure to see your merchant ships.

Excellent work!

Here's an odd vessel, the SS Bessemer.

This drawing is sort of a composite from various resources of varying accuracy, the best resources being several photos I found of the ship during it's trial and public voyage, as well as photos of the saloon interior and the saloon test model.

The ship's unique swinging saloon was designed by Sir Bessemer to combat seasickness by keeping the floor of the saloon horizontal while the ship rolls. It achieved this by having the saloon suspended on gimbals and having a steersman control the hydraulics to level the saloon. The ship proved to perform very poorly during its trial and its first (and only) voyage, colliding with the Calais pier twice and ultimately driving away anyone interested in investing in Sir Bessemer's Saloon Ship Company and leading to the demise of both the ship and the company. After she was scrapped in 1879, the saloon continued its existence as a billiard room for the ship's designer, Edward Reed. Reed's house later became a women's college where the saloon was used as a lecture hall until its destruction during the bombings of England in WWII.

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