Lamport & Holt Lamport & Holts'  M.V. "Dryden"4  
       
  Built:  Akt. Burmeister & Wain’s Maskin og Skibsbyggeri, Copenhagen, Denmark  
  ON: 167249  
Dimensions: 447.2 x 60.2 x 36.0 feet
  Tonnage: Gross: 8293   Net: 5004  
  Propulsion: 6 Cyl S.C.D.A. oil engine by builder of 1236 nhp with a speed of 13 kts.  
  Type:    
  Launched: 15/02/1939 as Columbia Star for Union Cold Storage Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line managers)  
  Completed: 05/1939  
  Transferred: 1950 to Lamport & Holt Line Ltd. – same managers  
  Renamed: 1953 as Dryden 4  
  Renamed: 1955 as  Patagonia Star 1  
  Renamed: 1957 as Columbia Star 1  
  Transferred: 1959 to Blue Star Line Ltd.  
  Renamed: 1963 as Dryden 4  
  Transferred: 1963 to Lamport & Holt Line Ltd.  
  Sold: 1968 to Yung Tai Steel & Iron Works Co. Ltd., Taiwan and arrived Kaohsiung 10/11/1968 to be broken up  
       
  Sister ships: California Star 1 & Canadian Star 1  
     
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  Dryden 4 of 1939  
     
 

Launched as the Columbia Star 1 at Burmeister & Wain’s in Copenhagen, she was the last vessel to be delivered by them prior to WWII. The ill-fated Adelaide Star 1 was never completed for Blue Star Line and was seized by the Germans when they invaded Denmark in April 1940.
She was another example of multiple names, being the Columbia Star 1 , Dryden, Patagonia Star, Columbia Star 1  and finally reverting back to the Dryden again.

  
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