Columbia Star 1

		Blue Star's M.V. "Columbia Star" 1
		Blue Star's M.V. "Patagonia Star" 1

	Built:	Akt. Burmeister & Wain’s Maskin og Skibsbyggeri, Copenhagen, Denmark
	ON:	167249
	Dimensions:	447.2 x 60.2 x 36.0 feet
	Tonnage:	Gross: 8293 Net: 5004
	Propulsion:	6 Cyl S.C.D.A. oil engine by builder of 1236 nhp with a speed of 13 kts.
	Type:	Refrigerated Cargo Liner
	Launched:	15/02/1939 as *Columbia Star* for Union Cold Storage Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line managers)
	Completed:	05/1939
	Transferred:	1950 to Lamport & Holt Line Ltd. – same managers
	Renamed:	1953 as Dryden 4
	Renamed:	1955 as Patagonia Star 1
	Renamed:	1957 as Columbia Star 1
	Transferred:	1959 to Blue Star Line Ltd.
	Renamed:	1963 as Dryden 4
	Transferred:	1963 to Lamport & Holt Line Ltd.
	Sold:	1968 to Yung Tai Steel & Iron Works Co. Ltd., Taiwan and arrived Kaohsiung 10/11/1968 to be broken up

	Sister ships:	California Star 1 & Canadian Star 1

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	*Columbia Star* ~ Courtesy of Tom Jones

	Launched as the *Columbia Star* at Burmeister & Wain’s in Copenhagen, she was the last vessel to be delivered by them prior to WWII. The ill-fated Adelaide Star 1 was never completed for Blue Star Line and was seized by the Germans when they invaded Denmark in April 1940.

	The short-lived *Patagonia Star*

	She was another example of multiple names, being the *Columbia Star, Dryden , Patagonia Star, Columbia Star* and finally reverting back to the Dryden again.

	Scottish Star 2 with Columbia Star 1 ~ Painting by Wallace Trickett

	*See: Columbia Star* 2** & Columbia Star 3


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