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Blue
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Famously ran aground on the Skeleton Coast |
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Cammell
Laird & Company Ltd., Birkenhead |
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164578 |
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Dimensions: |
530.0 x 70.4 x 32.3 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 11168 Net:
6853 |
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Propulsion: |
Two 9-Cylinder 2 S.C.S.A. oil engines by Sulzer Bros.,
Winterthur, driving twin screws |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
29/10/1935 (Yard No. 1009) as Dunedin Star
for Union Cold Storage Ltd. ( Blue Star Line managers |
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Completed: |
2/1936 |
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Damaged & Beached: |
29/11/1942 when she struck a submerged object in
position 18.12S, 11.42E, when on a voyage from Liverpool to Saldanha Bay, South
Africa, Aden and Egypt with general cargo and Government stores. She was beached
30/11/1942 in a position 18.13S, 11.55E
[22] , and abandoned as a total loss. Some of
the cargo was salvaged in 1951 |
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Dunedin Star I ~ Photograph J. K. Byass
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Fraser Darrah Collection |
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Launch of the Dunedin Star 29th
October 1935 ~ Cammell Laird & Company Ltd. |
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| Laying of the keel of
Melbourne Star five minutes later ! ~ Photographs by
Stewart Bale |
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Dunedin Star
1 entering Port Chalmers , circa late 1930's. ~ Painting by Wallace
Trickett |
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Dunedin Star I - from a postcard kindly
supplied by S. Manson |
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Dunedin Star I - from a
photograph kindly
supplied by Bryan Oliver |
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News Reel of Launch at Birkenhead |
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Links:
Skeleton
Coast by John H Marsh
Dunedin Star survivors lost on the Melbourne Star |
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See: Dunedin Star 2
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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