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Blue
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Built: |
Smith's Dock Co. Ltd, Middlesbrough |
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379682 IMO No. 7636676 |
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Dimensions: |
168.87 x 25.2 x 9.37 metres |
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Tonnage: |
As Built:
Gross : 17082 Net : 8930
Post 1998: Gross : 16498 Net : 4494 |
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Propulsion: |
6-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A. Sulzer oil engine of 17,400 bhp by Barclay
Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
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Type: |
Fully refrigerated container ship 721 T.E.U, 6 passengers |
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Launched: |
22/4/1978 (Yard No. 1340) as Australia Star 3
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Brodies (London) Ltd. (Blue Star Ship Management Ltd. appointed managers) |
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Completed: |
20/07/1978 |
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Crane: |
27/09/1988 her No.4 Hatch Crane after it collapsed during loading
operations at New Plymouth |
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Transferred: |
2/02/1989 to Austasia Maritime Private Ltd., (B.S.S.M. Ltd.
managers), Singapore and renamed
Mahsuri
4 |
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Ran aground: |
15/09/1990 in position 00.38N 105.08E in the Straits of
Malacca causing considerable damage to her hull. She was on a voyage from
Fremantle to the Middle East |
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Refloated: |
19/09/1990 and towed to Singapore, arriving 20/09/1990 for
dry docking and repairs which included the installation of a new crane at
No.4 Hatch |
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Repairs compd: |
12/01/1991 |
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Renamed: |
6/03/1992 as
Australia Star |
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Transferred: |
5/1994 to Bahamas registry, Nassau |
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Chartered: |
1994 by Pacific International Lines (Pte) Ltd., on their
service from Australia to Malaysia and renamed Anro Fremantle |
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Arrived: |
29/04/2001 Chittagong, Bangladesh to be broken up |
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Sister Ship: |
New Zealand Star 3 |
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Schedule: |
New Zealand - Australia - The Gulf - Karachi - Bombay -
Cochin- Colombo - Singapore
- New Zealand |
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| Alongside at Lyttelton, New Zealand
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At Singapore |
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One of a class of two self-discharging container ships
built for the Australia - New Zealand - Persian Gulf service of Blue Star Line. It was
unfortunate that the year they entered service the Iran - Iraq War broke out,
effectively halving their intended market in the Gulf. Operation however
continued throughout this period, with calls at Muscat, Dubai, Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain and Kuwait. In 1989 she was transferred to
Austasia Line for the Far
East Service from Australia.
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Australia Star in King George V
Dry Dock Sambawang,
Singapore C1980 |
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The last three fine photographs are
courtesy of Nigel Smirk |
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| Views of Australia Star's
Engine Room - Photographs © Nick Dawber |
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History courtesy of Tony Atkinson
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See:
Mahsuri 4 , Australia Star 1
, Australia Star 2 &
Australia
Star 4 |
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Home Page
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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