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• The new motorships were described as " smokeless " and caused some to describe them as " phantom ships " with an incident during the trials for " Selandia " in which a captain of another ship ignored warnings and ran across her bows because he " saw no smoke . " The ship attracted curious crowds from London to San Francisco that were often skeptical of a deep ocean ship not powered by the commonly used triple expansion steam engine; yet within ten years there were over 2, 000, 000 deadweight capacity tons in commerce powered by diesel engines and British experts calculated the motorship had a 40 % advantage in fuel costs, with fewer crew and steadier sea speeds.