One of a class of four ships built at Harland & Wolff of Belfast,  they were the last of a long line of ships to be built for Blue Star Line and known as the Harland Class. With four fully refrigerated hatches and fitted with "Banana doors" they are a versatile class of ship. With modern hydraulically operated poppet valve 2-stroke B&W engines, 4 x Allen Alternators, J&E. Hall screw refrigeration compressors and fully automated machinery operation they are well thought out ships.

With the sale of Blue Star Line to  P. & O. Nedlloyd in February 1998, they were retained within the Vestey organisation and were operated by Star Reefers a combine of Hamburg Sud and Albion Reefers. In July 2001 the Group announced that Star Reefers, operating a fleet of 24 ships had been sold to Norwegian Owners. The Norwegian Owners forged a joint operation with the Japanese NYK Group, and a new company, NYK Star Reefers Ltd.
This has now become The Star Reefers Group based in the Cayman Islands with offices in Norway.