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Of Malta Convoy fame ~ The only Cammell
Laird survivor |
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Built: |
Cammell
Laird & Company Ltd., Birkenhead |
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165365 |
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Dimensions: |
530.0 x 70.4 x 32.2 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 11076 Net: 6787 |
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Propulsion: |
Two 10-Cyl. 2 S.C.S.A.
oil engines from Sulzer Bros., Winterthur, Switzerland, driving twin screws |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
7/07/1936 ( Yard No.1016) as Brisbane Star
for Union Cold Storage Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line Ltd. managers) |
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Completed: |
1/1937 |
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Transferred: |
1942 to Fredrick Leyland & Co. Ltd.- same managers |
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Damaged: |
12/08/1942 by German aircraft torpedo off
Skuki
Channel [40] in the Mediterranean Sea and arrived Malta 14/8/1942. She was on a
voyage from Liverpool to Malta. One crew member was lost. |
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Repaired: |
1943 at Puerto
Belgrano, Argentina |
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Transferred: |
1950 to Lamport & Holt Line - same managers |
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Transferred: |
1959 to Blue Star Line Ltd |
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Sold: |
7/1963 to Margalante Compania Naviera S.A., Liberia, and
renamed Enea |
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Sold: |
1963 to Japanese shipbreakers Izumi-Ohtsu, Japan and arrived
at Osaka 15/10/1963 to be broken up |
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Sister Ships: |
Imperial Star (1) ,
New Zealand Star (1) , Sydney
Star (1) , Australia
Star (1) , Empire
Star (2) ,
Melbourne Star 1 , Wellington Star (1),
Auckland Star (1),
Adelaide Star (1) , Empire Star (3), Imperial Star (2)
&
Melbourne Star (2)
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Brisbane Star on the Thames
~ Photograph F. H. Hawks |
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Brisbane Star |
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Brisbane Star
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Brisbane Star
~ Melbourne ~ 1962 ~ Photograph © Robert Winduss |
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Blue Star Brochure for South Africa, Australia & New Zealand from 1938 |
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| Fraser Darrah
Collection |
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Brisbane Star undergoing repairs at Naval de Puerto Belgrano,
Argentina 1943 |
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At some point in 1943 the Brisbane Star underwent
temporary repairs at the Argentine Naval Dockyard at
Puerto Belgrano, Argentina,
 after being torpedoed on the Malta Convoy. Puerto Belgrano
was and still is the largest naval base of the Argentine Navy. Note the
anti-aircraft guns mounted on the bridge wings and the gun aft.
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These images are
from Puerto Belgrano Naval Base Museum and are displayed with the kind permission of
HISTARMAR - Historia y Arqueologia
Marítima |
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Engine Room ~ 1959 |
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John
Huxley at the Control Consul of Port Main Engine |
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Snr. 3rd (left) & John Huxley |
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Brisbane Star
in Port Phillip Bay passing the Mornington Peninsula bound for Melbourne |
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Painting by Wallace Trickett
2007 |
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Brisbane Star
renamed
ENEA
prior to disposal ~ C1963 ~ Port & photographer
unknown |
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Photograph Paul D.
Edwards Collection |
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Links:
Malta Convoy -
including videos
Brisbane Star
Malta Convoy |
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Updated:
29-05-2008 |
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