Blue Star Line Blue Star's S.S. "Brodland"  
       
  Built: Craig, Taylor & Co., Stockton on Tees  
  ON: 98952  
Dimensions: 310.0 x 41.2 x 17.8 feet
  Tonnage: Gross : 2989 Net : 1949  
  Propulsion: Triple Expansion Steam Engine  
  Type: Refrigerated Cargo Liner  
  Launched: 9/04/1891 (Yard No. 26) as Highland Mary for Highland Mary S.S. Co. Ltd., (H & W Nelson, managers) London  
  Completed: 07/1891  
  Transferred: 1900 to Nelson Line (Liverpool) Ltd., (H & W Nelson, managers)  
  Purchased: 1/02/1912 by Brodland S.S. Co. Ltd., (Blue Star Line managers) and renamed Brodland  
  Wrecked: 20/01/1913 on Aberavon Beach whilst on voyage from Port Talbot to Punta Arenas, Chile with a cargo of coal  
     
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  S.S. Brodland ~ Fraser Darrah Collection  
     
 

The Brodland made Blue Star Line's first official sailing from Barry Dock with coal for Buenos Aires on the 1st February 1912. Unfortunately her career was short lived as on a similar voyage to Punta Arenas, she was wrecked on Aberavon Beach during a south-westerly gale enroute from Port Talbot. The whole crew were rescued by breeches buoy.

  
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