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Blue
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M.V.
"P&O Nedlloyd Taranaki" |
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Built: |
Chantiers de L'Atlantique
(Penhoet-Loire), Saint Nazaire, France |
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O.N.: |
902731
IMO No. 7900041 |
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Dimensions: |
199.7 x 31.7 x 9.5 metres |
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Tonnage: |
As built:
Gross: 30,080 Net: 14,368 DWT: 22,620 |
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After 1998: Gross: 29,259 Net: 8,778
DWT: 22,615 |
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Propulsion: |
10-cyl. 2 S.C.S.A. Sulzer 10RND90 type oil engine of 28,977 bhp manufactured
under license by Zaklady Przemyslu Metalowego “H.
Cegielski” S.A., Poznan, Poland |
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Type: |
Container ship with
stern ramp TEU Cap: 1,417 (436 below
deck/662 on deck/317 RoRo deck - 150 reefer plugs) |
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Keel laid: |
27.8.1980 |
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Launched: |
10.4.1981 (Yard
No.27), for Francusko-Poliskie Towarzstwo Zeglugowe Sp.z.o.o. (Polish Ocean
Lines, managers), Gdynia, Poland as Kazimierz Pulaski |
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Completed: |
30.7.1981 and
Bare-Boat chartered to Polska Ocean Line. |
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Sold: |
30.10.1992
to Kingston Maritime Corp., (Egon Oldendorff GmbH & Co. KG,
managers), Monrovia, Liberia and renamed Hinrich Oldendorff |
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Chartered: |
1.1993 to Bridge Line
Ltd. |
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Renamed: |
18.2.1993 as Pyrmont
Bridge |
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Sold: |
1.1996 to Blue
Star Line Ltd. (Blue Star Ship Management Ltd., managers), Monrovia, Liberia
and renamed
Australia Star 4 |
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Transferred: |
4.1998
to Blue Star Marine Ltd. (Blue Star Ship Management Ltd., managers), Hong
Kong. |
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1999: |
P&O Nedlloyd
Containers Ltd., appointed managers. |
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Renamed: |
7.6.1999 as P&O Nedlloyd
Taranaki |
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Transferred: |
Transferred to P&O
Nedlloyd Ltd. (P&O Nedlloyd B.V., managers), London |
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Arrived: |
24/02/2006 at Jiangyin Ship-breakers yard near Shanghai for
demolition |
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Australia Star 4 |
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Originally built for Polish Ocean Lines, the vessel has
not been without it's moments. In 1985 she took part in the search for the
downed Air India Boeing 747 which had crashed south-west of Ireland
killing 345. Some debris was retrieved from the Atlantic.
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Later in 1985 during a voyage from Baltimore to
Bremerhaven, she hit a submerged rock of Bergen Point, New Jersey, and was
holed underwater. A gash 20 feet long and 27 inches wide was caused by the
grounding, as a result she spilt over 80,000 gallons of bunkering fuel
into the Kill van Kull. The Kill van Kull connects Upper New York Bay with
Newark Bay, between Bayonne, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y. It is the main
route for ships docking at the busy harbours of Port Elizabeth and Port
Newark. The slick stretched from Howland Hook to Constable Hook.
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After completing repairs in Bremerhaven she resumed
commercial trading having been transferred to Polska Oceanska Line in
October 1985.
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P&O Nedlloyd Taranaki at Wellington - 17th
April 2004 ~ Photograph © Peter Stacey |
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P&O Nedlloyd Taranaki at Wellington - 17th
April 2004 ~ Photograph © Peter Stacey |
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PONL Taranaki at
Jiangyin Ship-breakers yard near Shanghai ~ 24/02/06 |
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Photograph © Frank
Fox |
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See:
Australia Star 1
, Australia Star 2 &
Australia Star 3 PONL Nina |
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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