Blue Star Line Blue Star's M.V. "Gladstone Star"  
       
  Built: BremerVulkan Schiffbau & Machinenfabrik, Vegesack, Germany  
  ON: 196445  
  Dimensions: 539' 3" x 70' 3" x 29' 9¼" feet  
  Tonnage: Gross: 10725  Net: 6454  
  Propulsion: 10-Cyl S.C.S.A. M.A.N. oil engine by shipbuilder  
  Type: Refrigerated Cargo Liner  
  Launched: 28/5/1957 (Yard No. 865) as Gladstone Star for Salient Shipping Company Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda  
  Completed: 10/1957   
  Registered: 1958 at London  
  Sold: 1982 to Kate Shipping Co. Ltd., (Intercon Transport Management Ltd., managers), Malta, and renamed Gladys  
  Resold: To United Steel Scrap Ltd., Pakistan and arrived 16/10/1982 at Karachi  
  Demolition commd: 13/11/1982 at Gardini Beach, Pakistan  
       
  Sister ship: Townsville Star  
     
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  Gladstone Star  ~ Avonmouth  ~ Peter Stacey Collection ~ taken by Gwilym Davies  
     
   
  Gladstone Star  ~ Nelson,  N.Z.   ~   Photograph © Roger Corfield  
   
   
  Gladstone Star  Auckland,  N.Z.  ~   Photograph © Dave Barnicoat  
     
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  Gladstone Star  
     
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  Gladstone Star  - At Melbourne    Photograph © Fraser Darrah  
     
 

The fourth of five ships built in Germany, of which the Canberra Star , Hobart Star  & Newcastle Star  were sisters. The Gladstone Star and Townsville Star differed slightly in design. The building of these vessels in foreign yards caused some adverse comment at the time.

 
 

The Gladstone Star class was lucky to retain a wood-sheathed foredeck. A bane to the Bosun and Chippy , who had to  keep it scrubbed and maintained, but it gave a large recreation area for the crew.

Shown here is a Saturday afternoon game of cricket mid-ocean in a photograph by Roger Corfield. 

 
Happy days!
 
     
   
  Gladstone Star - Photograph © Chris Crayson  
     
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  Gladstone Star at Santos. 1981 - Photograph © Kevin Brown  
   
   
  Gladstone Star ~ Laid up in Cardiff 1978 ~ Photograph © David Payze  
   
 
 
 Auxiliary & Main Engine ~ Photograph © David Payze
 
     
  Painting by Wallace Trickett  
  Gladstone Star departing Capetown ~ Painting by Wallace Trickett 2007  
     
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