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Blue
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Calmedia Line's M.V." Calavittoria" |
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Built: |
Alexander Stevens & Sons Ltd., Linthouse Glasgow |
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301332 |
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Dimensions: |
As built: 103.10 x 14.38 x 6.12
metres
As Lengthen: 119.87 x 14.38 x 6.12 metres |
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Tonnage: |
As built:
Gross: 3005 Net: 1534
As Lengthen: Gross: 3666 Net: 1983 |
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Propulsion: |
7-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A Sulzer Oil Engine by
shipbuilders |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
1/12/1959 (Yard Number 662) as Chatham
for Lamport & Holt Lines Ltd. Liverpool |
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Completed: |
2/1960 |
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Transferred: |
1963 to the Blue Star Line Ltd. and renamed
Mendoza
Star |
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Lengthen: |
1963 by Societe Anonyme Cockerill-Ougree at
Hoboken, Belgium |
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Sold: |
1967 to Calmedia S.p.A ci Navigazione, Italy and renamed
Calavittoria |
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Sold: |
1979 to Laguna Shipping Co Ltd. (Lakaridis Shipping
Co. Ltd. managers), Greece and renamed Frio Agean |
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Sold: |
1984 to Habib Maritime Ltd., Pakistan and arrived at Gadani
Beach 26/3/1984 to be broken up |
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Demolition commcd: |
15/4/1984 |
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Mendoza Star in the English Channel prior to being
lengthened
Photograph © Skyfotos |
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Mendoza Star
passing the Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro by
Wallace Trickett |
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Mendoza Star at Valparaiso November 1966 |
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| Valparaiso Nov 1966/ Mar 1967 & The Straits of Magellan 1967 |
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In the Caribbean April 1967 |
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Carpenter Norman Harle, Cadets John
Parish & Peter Stacey |
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Photographs © Peter Stacey |
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Calavittoria ~ Peter
Stacey Collection ~ taken by Gwilym Davies |
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Calavittoria ~ Ushuaia ,Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina ~
1967 |
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Photograph ©
Costa Container Lines (CCL) |
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Link: WebCam Ushuaia
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Updated:
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