Blue Star Line Blue Star's M.V. "California Star" 3  
    Blue Star's M.V. "Fremantle Star" 3  
       
  Built: BremerVulkan Schiffbau & Machinenfabrik, Vegesack, Germany  
  ON: 341358  
Dimensions: 188.86 x 25.91 x 10.059 metres
  Tonnage: Gross : 19095 Net : 10730  
  Propulsion: 9-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A. M.A.N. oil engine by the shipbuilder  
  Type: Refrigerated Cellular Containership  
Launched: 12/1/1971 (Yard No. 975) as California  Star 3 for Blue Star Line Ltd. 
  Completed: 5/1971  
  1975: Blue Star Ship Management Ltd. appointed managers  
  Transferred: 1987 to Austasia Line and renamed Mulbera  
  Transferred: 1/3/93 to Blue Star Line and renamed Fremantle Star 3  
       
  Sister ship: Columbia Star 2  
   
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  California Star in the Panama Canal ~ Photograph © Peter Moore  
     
  California Star in the Mersey  
  California Star in the River Mersey, Liverpool - Photographed by Philip Parker  
   
   
  California Star ~ Dave Cross (2nd/Mate) and Captain Sandy Kinghorn on the bridge  
     
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  California Star at Long Beach -1980 - Photograph © Kevin Brown  
     
 

One of a class of two, which were the first purpose built container ships, built by Blue Star Line for the West Coast of America service, thus superseding the conventional ships that had previously operated this service.  Schedules normally took in the ports of Liverpool - Long Beach (Los Angeles) - San Francisco - Oakland - Seattle - Vancouver.

  
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  California Star in Fremantle - Photograph © Chris Crayson  
     
   
  Fremantle Star 3 at Melbourne - 1998 - Photograph © Malcolm Grieves  
     
  See: California Star 1 ,  California Star 2 & California Star 4  
     
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  Updated: 30-06-2008