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A.C.T.'s
S.S. "ACT 10" |
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Star's M.V. "Columbia Star" 3 |
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Built: |
BremerVulkan
Schiffbau & Machinenfabrik, Vegesack, Germany |
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388269 |
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Dimensions: |
169.40 (bb) x x 27.84
x 10.018 metres |
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Tonnage: |
As Built: Gross:19,613
Net: 10,712 |
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After 1998: Gross:
19,636
Net: 9,280 |
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Propulsion: |
9-cyl. 2 S.C.S.A. MAN
K9SZ70/125BL oil engine developing 18,345 bhp by shipbuilders |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Containership |
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Launched: |
24/9/1979 (Yard No.
1002) as New Zealand Caribbean for for Lloyd’s Leasing Ltd.
(The Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd., managers), London |
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Completed: |
24/9/1979 |
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Maiden voyage: |
16/01/1980 |
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1/9/1985: |
New
Zealand Line was formed, with The Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.,
(New Zealand Line), Wellington, New Zealand as managers |
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Transferred: |
9/9/1985 to the New Zealand Registry,
Wellington |
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Sold: |
31/1/1989
Sold to Bass New World International Ltd., (Columbia Ship Management Ltd.,
managers) Nassau, and renamed Abacas
(handed over on the same day at Vancouver, BC, Canada) |
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1.2.1989: |
New Zealand Registry closed |
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Transferred: |
3/1990 to NWS 9
Ltd., (Cunard Ellerman Shipping Ltd.), Nassau, Bahamas and renamed
ACT
10 |
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Sold: |
1991 to Claire Navigation S.A.,
(Blue Star Ship Management Ltd., managers), Nassau, Bahamas |
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Renamed: |
26/11/1991 as Columbia Star |
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Sold: |
5/1998 to Capital Leasing (9) Ltd.
(P&O Nedlloyd Container Line Ltd., managers) |
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Transferred: |
15/2/2000 to P&O Nedlloyd Ltd. (P&O Nedlloyd B.V., managers), and
operated by Oceanica AGW Com & Rep. Es Ltda. (Mercosul Line), Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil and renamed Mercosul Argentina |
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Transferred: |
06/2001 to P&O Nedlloyd Ltd. (P&O
Nedlloyd B.V. managers), Nassau, Bahamas and renamed P&O Nedlloyd
Luanda |
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Sold: |
06/2002
to
Chinese Mainland shipbreakers for $140 per LDT |
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Arrived: |
17/6/2002 at Jiangyin, China to be broken up |
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Columbia Star - Photograph © Captain Peter
Holtby |
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Jim King of New Zealand wrote:
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Colombia Star was formerly the New Zealand
Caribbean. She was originally registered in Wellington, New Zealand, then the registration was changed about a year later to
London, UK.
The ship was built in 1979, at Vegesack, Bremerhaven, Germany. She did her sea trials in September 1979, and we bought her back from Germany around the 15-17th January 1980. I was aged
16 and I was a Deck-Boy on-board her.
The New Zealand Caribbean was specifically designed for the West Indies, Central America, Houston, New Orleans, Panama, then down to Sydney, Melbourne,
finishing off her run in New Zealand, calling at Auckland, New Plymouth, Lyttelton. She specialized in the dairy trade, and the 4 Swedish cranes on-board her were worth more than the entire ship, which in later years were taken off in San Francisco.
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Official Blue Star Line postcard - Photograph
© Peter Stacey |
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| Columbia Star Photo © Woolf
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Columbia Star Photo © Peter Stacey |
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Details & history
generously supplied by Tony Atkinson |
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See: Columbia Star 1 &
Columbia Star
2
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