The British screw steamer Colenso - named after the Boer War battle at which a determined band of British soldiers "saved the guns" from capture and were rewarded with six Victoria Crosses - was built for the Wilson Line in 1900 by R. Stephenson and Co. of Newcastle. Registered at 3,861 tons, she measured 340 feet in length, with a 47 foot beam, and she operated out of her home port of Hull. Apart from a sketch, no other picture of this ship by Jacobsen has been recorded.