Blue Star Line   Blue Star's S.S. "Celtic Star" 2  
  Lamport & Holt   Lamport & Holts'  S.S. "Murillo" 2  
       
  Built: Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow, Scotland  
  ON: 168985  
Dimensions: 432.2 x 56.2 x 34.2 feet
  Tonnage: Gross: 7046 Net: 4906  
  Propulsion: Triple Expansion Steam reciprocating by J. G. Kincaid Ltd., Glasgow  
  Type: Cargo Liner  
  Launched: 18/05/1942 (Yard No. 970) as the Empire Galahad  for the Ministry of War Transport (Blue Star Line appointed managers)  
  Completed: 07/1942  
  Purchased: 01/04/1946 by Blue Star Line Ltd. and renamed as the Celtic Star 2  
  Transferred: 1946 to the Lamport & Holt Line Ltd. and renamed Murillo 2  
  Sold: 04/1962 to Industriale Maritima S.p.A., Italy for £520,000 and renamed Bogliasco  
  Re-engined: 1954 with 6-Cyl  2 S.C.S.A. oil engine manufactured by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Trieste, Italy  
  Sold: 1963 to Ocean Shipping and Enterprise (Panama) S.A. and renamed Ocean Peace  
  Sold: 1967 to Taiwan shipbreakers  
  Arrived breakers: 03/9/1967 at Kaohsiung and broken up in late autumn  
       
  Sister Ships:  Millais 2, Memling 3 , Millais 3  
   
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  Murillo 2 ~ Fraser Darrah Collection  
     
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  Updated: 18-02-2008