Montreal Star

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

Built:

Bartram & Sons. Ltd., Sunderland

ON:

304622

Dimensions:

141.10 x 19.33 x 8.23 metres

Tonnage:

Gross: 7483 Net: 4196

Propulsion:

8-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A. Sulzer 8RD 76 type oil engine of 12,000 BHP by George Clark (Sunderland) Ltd.

Type:

Fully refrigerated 4 hatch cargo ship

Launched:

14/12/1962 (Yard No. 395) as Montreal Star for Blue Star Line Ltd.

Completed:

09/1963

Transferred:

1963 to Blue Star Line Ltd.

1975:

Blue Star Ship Management Ltd. appointed managers

Sold:

1980 to Noori Trading Co. Ltd., Pakistan and arrived 1/08/1980 at Gardini Beach to be broken up.

Demolition commcd:

09/1980

Sister ships:

America Star 1 , Canterbury Star 1 , Halifax Star, & New York Star

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Montreal Star ~ Off Kuwait ~ 1970 ~ Photograph © Dave Barnicoat

Montreal Star

One of a class of five built at the Sunderland yard of Bartram's in the 1960's and engined by George Clark's also of Sunderland. As a cadet I spent the Summer Holidays with Stan Vik (later Personnel Department) at George Clarks engine works when the Montreal Star was on the stocks and the engine (RND Sulzer) for the America Star was being completed and test-bedded at George Clark's.

Montreal Star just before the "green flash" by Wallace Trickett

Montreal Star - Courtesy Andrew McIntosh

The photographs below were kindly sent by Andrew McIntosh who was a deck cadet on the Montreal Star in 1966/67.


*Montreal Star -* Christmas in New York


*Montreal Star -* Panama Canal Transit


Dry dock 1966/67

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