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Blue Star's M.V. "Adelaide Star" 2 |
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Built: |
John
Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank, Scotland |
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184324 |
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Dimensions: |
552.2 x 72.7 x 37.1 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross : 12037 Net : 7358 |
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Propulsion: |
Two 6-Cyl. 2 S.C.S.A.
Doxford oil engines by shipbuilders,
driving twin screws |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
2/8/1950 ( Yard No.657) as Adelaide Star
for Blue Star Line Ltd. |
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Completed: |
12/1950 |
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Transferred: |
1964 to Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., Liverpool |
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Transferred: |
1965 to Blue Star Line Ltd. |
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Sold: |
1975 to Nissho-Iwai Co. Ltd., London and resold to Hankook
Steel Company to be broken up. Arrived Masan, South Korea 12/6/1975 |
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Demolition commd: |
9/9/1975 |
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Sister ship:
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Wellington Star 2 |
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Semi-Sister ships: |
Auckland Star 2 &
Tasmania Star
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Adelaide Star alongside at Auckland - Photograph © Fraser Darrah |
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Adelaide Star alongside
at Lyttelton ~ Photograph © John Rendle |
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Adelaide Star ~ BSL Postcard ~ Courtesy Peter Stacey |
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The Adelaide Star was one of the four post-war
"Dominion Boats" built in the 1950's. All of similar hulls, the
Adelaide Star and Wellington Star were twin-screw
motorships built at John Brown's. The Auckland Star and
Tasmania Star were single-screw steam-turbine vessels built at
Cammell Lairds. The
Auckland Star did not appear until 1958, due to an almost record
time on the stocks, H.M.S. Ark Royal being built on an
adjoining slip. With steel still in short supply, the Ark Royal
got first choice in materials and manpower, despite that she took 16 years
to complete!
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Adelaide Star
at Picton, New Zealand, November 1959 |
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She is dressed overall as she was officially reopening Picton
as an overseas trading port |
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1. Ron Whitworth S/3/Eng
2. Keith Freeman J/3/Eng
3. Jimmy Rendall C/Ref/Eng
4. Jack McCallum 2/Ref/Eng
5. Alec McKinnon 2/Elec
6. Alan Wilkinson J/Eng
7. Angus McKinnon S/4/Eng
8. Johnny Wright J/2/Eng
9. Bob Smark J/4/Eng
10. George Allan S/2/Eng
11. Alan Baker J/Eng
12. Jack Parry C/Elec |
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Photographs above © Robert Smark |
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Adelaide Star
passing Benelong Point, Sydney C1956, the site of the present Opera House.
Note the steam tug in attendance! Photograph kindly supplied by Ian Wood |
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Adelaide Star
at Capetown - Courtesy of Ron Bennetts |
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Adelaide Star
departing Timaru - 1969 ~ Photograph © D.F.Darrah
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Adelaide Star
at Auckland 1965 ~ Photograph © Dave Barnicoat |
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Postcard published by Wallace Trickett ~ 3/09/2005 |
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Adelaide Star approaching New Plymouth off Taranaki at night in
moonlight by Wallace Trickett |
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Adelaide Star at Capetown with the steam tug Danny Hugo, circa
1969-70. by Wallace Trickett
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Her namesake the ill-fated Adelaide Star (1)
building at Burmeister & Wain’s in Copenhagen and was never completed for Blue
Star Line being seized by the Germans when they invaded Denmark in April
1940. This resulted in a long post-war wrangle for compensation which was
eventually obtained from Burmeister & Wain’s. When attending an engine
maintenance course at Burmeister & Wain’s, Copenhagen, I remember seeing the
maker's model in their museum of the "Ship that never was".
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