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