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Blue
Star's M.V. "Empirestar" |
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Blue
Star's M.V. "Empire Star" 1 |
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Blue
Star's M.V. "Tudor Star" 2 |
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Built: |
Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow |
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ON: |
143407 |
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Dimensions: |
423.4 x 56.0 x 28.7 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 7199 Net: 4524 |
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Propulsion: |
Triple expansion 3-cyl steam engine of 696 NHP, 4
single-ended scotch boilers by J. G .Kincaid & Co., Greenock.
Producing a service speed of 12 kts. |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
1919 ( Yard No.714) as Empirestar for
Empirestar S.S. Co. Ltd. (The Blue Star Line Ltd. managers) |
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Completed: |
12/1919 |
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Transferred: |
1920 to Union Cold Storage. Co. Ltd (Blue Star Line (1920) Ltd. managers) |
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Renamed: |
1929 as Empire Star |
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Managers restyled: |
1930 as Blue Star Line Ltd. |
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Renamed: |
1935 as
Tudor Star to make way for Empire
Star 2 |
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Transferred: |
1949 to Union International Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line
Ltd., managers) |
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Sold: |
1950 to N.V. Scheepsloperijen Machinehandel for £20,000 and
arrived at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Holland to be broken up |
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Empire Star - Fraser Darrah Collection |
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Tudor Star 2
~ Photograph © Tom Rayner |
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Like all her sisters at the time, she started with the name
as all one word, Empirestar. As with the rest of the fleet at
the same time as the A-boats had the Star added to their
names, hers was split into the Empire Star.
Originally boasting an Admiralty cowl to her funnel, it was removed
at the time of her renaming.
With a long career of 31 years, it said something of her
builders, not to mention those that sailed in her. Escaping any wartime
incidents she long outlived many of her younger sisters.
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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