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Here's a shipgirl that I revealed in another's depiction of the same mysterious vessel/fabled ghost ship. That vessel being the infamous SS Ourang Medan, which has a rather questionable existence as we have little to go off if a vessel registered to the Netherlands existed. Either way, here's my take on the Indonesian ghost ship.

Built in the United States, launched on 6th March 1944 and serving the US until sold to Dutch owners after WWII, SS Ourang Medan was one of several mass-produced cargo ships during the Second World War in a bid to build more merchant ships than the Germans could sink, while also being an improvement over the EC2-S-C1 type cargo ship from 1941, better known as "Liberty Ships". After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Netherlands Victory was sold to a private Dutch company and given a new name, "SS Ourang Medan" (a possible misspelling for "Orang Medan", Indonesian for "terrain people" or "People from Medan"). In 1947, she was chartered out to her old old operator of the US Navy to transport a hazardous chemical known as "Manchurian Gold" from Qingdao in China to the United States for studying. At the time, the effects of this chemical was still unknown and what occurred aboard the vessel remains a mystery and the vessel's whereabouts unknown to this day but it's likely believed that due to neglect, the possibly rotted hulk finally sunk.

While I've based mine on that from the video game "Man from Medan" because of the hazardous cargo "Manchurian Gold", I differ from the game as SS Ourang Medan is depicted in that as the familiar EC2-S-C1 (better known as a "Liberty Ship" built between 1941 and 1945 with 2,710 examples), I instead went for the sometimes rather forgotten VC2-S-AP1 or "Victory Ship" built between 1944 and 1946 with 534 examples which were an improvement over the Liberty Ship by having steam turbines over triple-expansion steam engines to allow them to be less vulnerable against U-boats with a top speed of 17 knots over the Liberty's 11.5 knots. I picked SS Netherlands Victory was because I needed to select one of the 534 built and checking the names, I figured that Netherlands Victory was best option because of her name that would make her already perfect for a Dutch company (irl, she was sold to a civilian line and renamed "SS Pelican according to records), technically making her a VC2-S-AP3. Her appearance is based upon a humanised age of 15 years old as compared to most vessels, Liberties and Victories aren't really that large compared to other vessels including warships (she's dwarfed by the likes of USS New Jersey BB-62 and RMS Olympic) so I made the age reflect the size. Her outfit is grey with a rather worn out orange and blue coat as in this canon, she simply got renamed and not repainted out of US Navy haze grey, with an orange flower that has lost its colour due to the effects of "Manchurian Gold" (which is also that green smoke). If depicted with rigging, Ourang Medan's would look pretty rusty.

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Here's a shipgirl that I revealed in another's depiction of the same mysterious vessel/fabled ghost ship. That vessel being the infamous SS Ourang Medan, which has a rather questionable existence as we have little to go off if a vessel registered to the Netherlands existed. Either way, here's my take on the Indonesian ghost ship.

Built in the United States, launched on 6th March 1944 and serving the US until sold to Dutch owners after WWII, SS Ourang Medan was one of several mass-produced cargo ships during the Second World War in a bid to build more merchant ships than the Germans could sink, while also being an improvement over the EC2-S-C1 type cargo ship from 1941, better known as "Liberty Ships". After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Netherlands Victory was sold to a private Dutch company and given a new name, "SS Ourang Medan" (a possible misspelling for "Orang Medan", Indonesian for "terrain people" or "People from Medan"). In 1947, she was chartered out to her old old operator of the US Navy to transport a hazardous chemical known as "Manchurian Gold" from Qingdao in China to the United States for studying. At the time, the effects of this chemical was still unknown and what occurred aboard the vessel remains a mystery and the vessel's whereabouts unknown to this day but it's likely believed that due to neglect, the possibly rotted hulk finally sunk.

While I've based mine on that from the video game "Man from Medan" because of the hazardous cargo "Manchurian Gold", I differ from the game as SS Ourang Medan is depicted in that as the familiar EC2-S-C1 (better known as a "Liberty Ship" built between 1941 and 1945 with 2,710 examples), I instead went for the sometimes rather forgotten VC2-S-AP1 or "Victory Ship" built between 1944 and 1946 with 534 examples which were an improvement over the Liberty Ship by having steam turbines over triple-expansion steam engines to allow them to be less vulnerable against U-boats with a top speed of 17 knots over the Liberty's 11.5 knots. I picked SS Netherlands Victory was because I needed to select one of the 534 built and checking the names, I figured that Netherlands Victory was best option because of her name that would make her already perfect for a Dutch company (irl, she was sold to a civilian line and renamed "SS Pelican according to records), technically making her a VC2-S-AP3. Her appearance is based upon a humanised age of 15 years old as compared to most vessels, Liberties and Victories aren't really that large compared to other vessels including warships (she's dwarfed by the likes of USS New Jersey BB-62 and RMS Olympic) so I made the age reflect the size. Her outfit is grey with a rather worn out orange and blue coat as in this canon, she simply got renamed and not repainted out of US Navy haze grey, with an orange flower that has lost its colour due to the effects of "Manchurian Gold" (which is also that green smoke). If depicted with rigging, Ourang Medan's would look pretty rusty.