Hobart Star / Buenos Aires Star 1

Blue Star's M.V. "Hobart Star"

Blue Star's M.V. "Buenos Aires Star" 1

Built:

BremerVulkan Schiffbau & Machinenfabrik, Vegesack, Germany

ON:

196432

Dimensions:

519' 6" x 70' 3" x 29' 11ž" feet

Tonnage:

Gross: 8398 Net: 4934

Propulsion:

10-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A M.A.N. oil engine by the shipbuilder.

Type:

Refrigerated Cargo Liner

Launched:

10/04/1956 (Yard No. 853) as Hobart Star for the Salient Shipping Co. (Bermuda) Ltd.

Completed:

7/1956

Registered:

1962 at London

Renamed:

1972 as Buenos Aires Star 1

Renamed:

1972 as Hobart Star

Sold:

1978 Fairmont Shipping Co. SA, Panama and renamed Aegean Prosperity

Sold:

1976 Universe Sunset Marine Inc., Greece

Sold:

1980 An Hsiung Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Taiwan and arrived Kaohsiung 10/03/1980 to be broken up

Demolition commd:

20/3/1980

Sister ships:

Canberra Star/Buenos Aires Star 2 & Newcastle Star / Montevideo Star

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Hobart Star ~ Lyttelton ~ 12 June 1971 ~ Photograph Š Graham Ferguson

Hobart Star at Berth No. 19, Port Adelaide, October 1970 in Compass Line colours

Photograph Š Chris Finney

Blue Star and Port Lines formed Compass Line for a service between South Africa and Australia in 1969

Hobart Star ~ Photographer unknown ~ Fraser Darrah Collection

Hobart Star at Timaru, New Zealand ~ Photograph Š Fraser Darrah

The second 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.


Hobart Star ~ Photograph Š David Bell-Lennan		Canada Dry Dock, Liverpool

Buenos Aires Star ~ Possibly at Rotterdam ~ Peter Stacey Collection ~ taken by Gwilym Davies

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