One of a class of five built at the Sunderland yard of Bartram's  in the 1960's and engined by George Clark's also of Sunderland. As a cadet I spent the Summer Holidays with Stan Vik (later Personnel Department)  at George Clarks engine works when the Montreal Star was on the stocks and the engine (RND Sulzer) for the America Star was being completed and test-bedded at George Clark's. The engines incidentally were unfortunately fitted with the notorious rotary exhaust valves, which caused endless strife. The  blades breaking off and  jamming the exhaust valve drive, causing the drive bolts to shear.

A set of photographs by Peter Stacey, taken in Hull Dry Dock in 1971. It was the first time she had returned to the UK after being on the ECNA (East Coast North America) run, between Australia/New Zealand and the US and Canada.

The photograph was taken the River Fal on 21^st June 1983 as Kevin Brown and most of the crew paid-off, following a two week NATO convoy exercise in the North Atlantic called Ocean Safari '83. It was a very interesting short trip with around 15 merchant vessels and numerous warships all doing their best to avoid each other at close quarters. I’m sure it wasn’t the Engineers fault but we became a ‘straggler’ at one point due to an engine problem. We were left drifting with a German destroyer for escort that just went around us in circles with his forward gun continually pointing towards us until the problem was rectified. I think they were disappointed at missing some of the fun with the other warships.
It was shortly after this, and a period laid up that she was sold for scrapping in China