Blue Star Line   Blue Star's M.V. "Tuscan Star" 2  
  Blue Star's M.V. "Timaru Star" 1  
  Blue Star's M.V. "California Star" 2
       
  Built: Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast   
  ON: 168540  
  Dimensions: 457.3 x 63.3 x 35.0 feet  
  Tonnage: Gross : 8577 Net: 5040  
  Propulsion: 8-Cyl 2 S.C.D.A. Burmeister & Wain oil engine by the Shipbuilder  
  Type: Refrigerated Cargo Liner  
  Launched: 4/5/1945 (Yard No.1231) as Empire Clarendon  for the Ministry of War Transport. P&O Steam Navigation Co. appointed managers  
  Completed: 10/1945  
  Purchased: 27/11/1946 by Frederick Leyland & Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line Ltd. managers)  
  Renamed: 1947 Tuscan Star 2  
  Renamed: 1948 Timaru Star 1  
  Transferred: 1949 to Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., Liverpool   
  Renamed: 1958 California Star 2  
  Transferred: 1959 to Blue Star Line Ltd.  
  Sold: 1969 to Tsuan Yau Steel & Iron Works Co. Ltd., Taiwan and arrived 21/4/1969 at Kaohsiung to be broken up  
  Demolition commd: 20/5/1969  
     
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  Timaru Star 1 at Wellington ~ 1956 ~ Photograph courtesy John Wilmot  
   
 
 

George Mawhood, John Huxley and Jock Lockhead at New Plymouth
John Huxley & Fred Harding ~ 1957    
     
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Cabin party   Timaru Star Football Team ~ Timaru ~ 1956
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Sydney night out at Fred Harding's Aunt's
Timaru Star approaching Panama Canal ~ 1957
 
 
  Photographs above from John Wilmot's photograph album  
     
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  California Star 2 enters Dublin homeward bound from the West Coast of the USA
July 1960 - Photograph courtesy Rick Andrews		  
     
   
  Tuscan Star 2 - View of foredeck from fo'c'sle C1947  
     
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  As California Star  2 ~ Photograph B. Reeves  
     
  California Star at San Pedro  
  California Star  2 alongside at San Pedro, California, USA
See also: Caledonia Star    ~     Photograph courtesy Rick Andrews		  
     
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  California Star alongside at San Pedro, California, USA 
Photograph courtesy Derek Smith		  
     
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  California Star  2 alongside at Beauty Point, Tasmania ~ Photograph © Fraser Darrah  
   
   
  California Star 2 entering San Pedro, California. Behind her is Deadman's Island and the ships visible are a Liberty boat and Brooklyn class cruiser  
  Original painting by Wallace Trickett  
  See: California Star 1 ,  California Star 3 & California Star 4  
     
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  Updated: 24-02-2008