SS Otto Petersen was one of three ships ordered by the Vendila Steamboat Company (Svendsen & Christensen).

[2] SS Otto Petersen was built at the Elsinor Ironship and Machine Factory, Helsingør, Copenhagen in 1930.

[3][4] Her captain for 24 years, Knud Valdemar Goth (1893 - 1966) joined Vendila around 1920.

[2] SS Otto Petersen was blown in two when a mine went off in Drammen Fiord, Norway on 12 January 1945.

In 1954 Otto Petersen was sold to Haverbeck & Skalweit, Chile and renamed Tornagaleones.