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Blue
Star's M.V. "English Star" 1 |
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Built: |
Fairfield Shipbuilding
& Engineering Co. Ltd. Glasgow |
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18272 |
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Dimensions: |
484.5 x 70.2 x 35.9 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 9996 Net: 5950 |
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Propulsion: |
Two 5-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A.
Doxford oil engines
by the shipbuilder, driving twin screws |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
6/12/1949 (Yard No. 746) as English Star
for Blue Star Line Ltd. |
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Completed: |
10/1950 |
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Sold: |
1973 to Chin Tai Enterprise Co. Ltd., Taiwan and arrived
21/9/1973 at Kaohsiung to be broken up |
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Demolition commd: |
7/1/1974 |
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Sister ship: |
Scottish Star 2 |
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Blue Star Line postcard ~ English Star ~
Fraser Darrah
Collection |
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English Star 1 off the Kapiti Coast on passage from New Plymouth
to Wellington. 1960's |
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Painting by Wallace
Trickett |
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English Star 1 ~ Loading in
Royal Victoria Dock, London ~ Summer 1958 |
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English Star
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Fraser Darrah
Collection |
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English Star 1 - Photograph
courtesy of Bob Smark |
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English Star
1
passing under the Sydney Harbour Bridge C1955 ~ Photograph courtesy Dick
Young |
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English Star 1 ~ Taken in the
Mediterranean in November 1959 ~ Photograph courtesy Dick Young |
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One of two fine ships laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding
& Engineering Co. Ltd at the end of WWII to replace lost tonnage. |
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See: English Star 2 |
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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