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Blue Star's M.V. "Melbourne
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Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
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181946 |
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Dimensions: |
549.9 x 70.3 x 40.7 feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 13179 Net: 8091 |
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Propulsion: |
Two 8-Cyl.
2 S.C.D.A. Burmeister & Wain oil engine by shipbuilder, driving twin
screws |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
2/10/1947 ( Yard No.1351) as Melbourne Star
for Union Cold Storage Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line Managers) |
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Completed: |
7/1948 |
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Owners: |
Restyled as Union International Co. Ltd. in 1949
- same managers |
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Sold: |
1972 to Embajada Compania Naviera S.S., Greece and renamed Melbo |
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Sold: |
1972 to Tung Cheng Steel & Iron Works, Taiwan to be broken up
at Kaohsiung |
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Handed over: |
To the shipbreakers who commenced work on 18/1/1973 |
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Demolition completed : |
7/4/1973 |
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Sister Ships: |
Imperial Star (1) ,
New Zealand Star (1) , Sydney
Star (1) , Australia
Star (1) , Empire
Star (2) , Melbourne Star 1 , Brisbane
Star (1), Wellington Star (1), Auckland Star (1),
Adelaide Star (1) , Empire
Star (3), & Imperial Star (2) |
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| Melbourne Star on the River Tyne at South
Shields |
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Going through the
old bridge across the Derwent, |
| The Pilot Boat Caer
Urfa in
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Hobart
~ Photograph © Hobart
Mercury |
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Melbourne Star entering and berthing at Royal Docks, Port of London
October 1960 |
| These nostalgic photos were provided by Jim Ball of Capetown |
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Melbourne & Caledonia Star's spare propellers in Royal Docks
Photograph © David Bell-Lennan |
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Melbourne's Engineers circa 1968 with B&W "Double Banger" in
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Bob Smark (extreme left), Torquil Mc Leod(3rd from left), George Petrie(4th from left) |
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Melbourne's Engineers taken in Melbourne with Adelaide Star in background
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Bob Smark (extreme left), Torquil McLeod(2nd left), Mike Squibbs (2nd right) and Martin Hogan(3rd
right) |
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Photographs © Robert Smark
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| Melbourne Star's Chronometer |
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A Thomas Mercer Limited 2.5 day marine chronometer in mahogany case with
silvered dial and subsidiary seconds, spotted movement with cut bi-metallic
compensation balance with palladium helical spring, signed Thomas Mercer
Limited, St. Albans, No. 16329 with mahogany outer case |
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It was to be auctioned at
Gorringes Auction Galleries, Worthing,
April 2004, but didn't reach it's reserve. |
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Note: Ships' Chronometers are mistakenly thought by many (land-lubbers) to be
accurate time-pieces. This is not strictly true. They have a constant rate, that
is a constant error, either gaining or loosing an equal number of seconds/day.
Hence from the last accurate time check, the ship's true time can be calculated.
Sadly they have largely been superseded by quartz time pieces and the use of
Global Positioning Systems (GPS). |
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| Melbourne Star
at Bluff 1972 |
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On her last voyage from Bluff |
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Photographs © Peter
Stacey |
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Melbourne Star 2
passing the White Cliffs of Dover ~ Painting © Wallace
Trickett |
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See: Melbourne Star 1 &
Melbourne Star 3 |
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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