One of a class of five built at the Sunderland yard of Bartram's  in the 1960's and engined by George Clark's also of Sunderland. As a cadet I spent the Summer Holidays with Stan Vik (later Personnel Department) at George Clarks engine works when the Montreal Star was on the stocks and the engine (RND Sulzer) for the America Star was being completed and test-bedded at George Clark's.

Several Blue Star ships were laid up in Barry, South Wales over several summers in the late 1970's. This was brought on partially by the trade sanctions imposed against South Africa's Apartheid system. Ships which normally carried out the South African Fruit Trade during the season, were no longer able to trade to South African ports. Barry became a "Blue Star Car Park", with a steady rotation of vessels including the Andalucia Star , Fremantle Star and Townsville Star .