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Blue Star's M.V. "Columbia Star" 2 |
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Austasia Line's
M.V. "Mandama" 3 |
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Blue Star's M.V. "New
Zealand Star" 4 |
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Built: |
BremerVulkan
Schiffbau & Machinenfabrik, Vegesack, Germany |
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342843 |
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Dimensions: |
188.86 x 25.91 x 10.059 metres |
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Tonnage: |
Gross : 19095 Net : 10730 |
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Propulsion: |
9-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A. M.A.N. oil engine by
the shipbuilder |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cellular Containership |
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Launched: |
25/6/1971 (Yard No. 976) as Columbia Star for
Blue Star Line Ltd. |
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Completed: |
9/1971 |
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1975: |
Blue Star Ship Management Ltd. appointed managers |
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Transferred: |
11/1986 to Austasia Line and renamed
Mandama 3 |
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Transferred: |
03/1992 to
Blue Star Line and renamed
New Zealand Star 4 |
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Arrived: |
14/02/1998 and beached at Chittagong breakers, broken up same month |
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Sister ship: |
California Star 3 |
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Columbia Star - Courtesy Tom Jones |
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Columbia Star - Kevin Brown's 21st Birthday Party - 30th
April 1980 |
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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. With the loss of the West Coast of
America trade, she was transferred to Austasia Line as the Mandama
3 before reverting to
Blue Star colours again as the New Zealand Star 4
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Mandama 3 ~
New Plymouth 22/09/89 ~ Photograph courtesy of
"Signals, Ships and Sundry Snippets" |
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Shown struggling in a strong
south-east wind assisted by the tugs Maui 1 and
Rupe |
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Oil painting of New Zealand
Star 4 by Wallace
Trickett |
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She is shown entering the Cook Strait from Wellington, with
the ferry Arahura in the background C1988 |
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| As New
Zealand Star 4 at Lyttelton, NZ on 1st Jan 1995 |
| Photographs © David Shepherd |
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| New Zealand Star
4 at Lyttelton, NZ on 1st Jan 1995 |
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En route to Laem Chabang ~ Jan
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Photograph © Alan Brown |
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New Zealand Star 4 anchored in Laem Chabang Roads, Bangkok, Thailand
prior to discharging an empty suit of containers in February 1998 |
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left here for the Chittagong Breakers ~ Photograph courtesy Bernard Duchemin |
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Bernard Duchemin remarked:
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The funny thing is that a Frenchman
booked the whole space of a British vessel going to scrap, through a
German broker based in Hamburg to ship empty containers owned by a US
company from US to Thailand where a photo of the ship had then been
taken, developed in Thailand, sent to Hamburg by mail and thence to
Paris where it got lost in piles of papers when the US leasing company
closed its the doors in 08/1999. Almost 7 years later, I am very pleased
to have been able to send this photo "back home" and to see that it
brings back memories and even some emotion (I saw Jim's message in the
log book).
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See:
See:
Columbia Star 1 &
Columbia
Star 3 |
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