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Blue Star's M.V. "Queensland
Star" 1 |
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Blue Star's M.V. "Brasilia Star" |
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Built: |
Fairfield Shipbuilding
& Engineering Co. Ltd. Glasgow |
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187685 |
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Dimensions: |
11'6" x 68'3" x 30'1" feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 10657 Net: 6422 |
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Propulsion: |
Two 5-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A.
Doxford oil engines
of 11,600 BHP by the shipbuilder, driving twin screws |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner |
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Launched: |
15/3/1957 (Yard No. 779) as Queensland Star
for Blue Star Line Ltd. |
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Completed: |
11/1957 |
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Transferred: |
1964 to Lamport & Holt Ltd., Liverpool (Blue Star
Line Ltd. managers) |
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Transferred: |
1965 to Blue Star Line
Ltd. |
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Renamed: |
1972 as Brasilia Star |
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Managers: |
1975 Blue Star Ship Management Ltd., Liverpool |
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Renamed: |
1977 as Queensland Star
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Renamed: |
1978 as Brasilia Star |
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Sold: |
1979 to Lung Fa Steel & Iron Co. Ltd., Kaohsiung to be broken
up |
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Sailed: |
16/11/1979 from Newhaven, Sussex for Kaohsiung |
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Demolition commd: |
14/1/1980 |
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Sistership (near): |
Rockhampton Star |
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Queensland Star (1) -
Photograph © Michael Davis |
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The photograph above was taken in the mid 60s,by Michael Davis from
aboard the Ellerman Line' s City of Brooklyn. He was 4th
Engineer at the time the photograph was taken, transiting the Panama Canal ,
west bound for Australia; the Queensland Star being east bound. His first
deep sea ship was with Blue Star Line in Dec 1961 aboard the Paraguay
Star as a junior engineer.
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Queensland Star (1) -
Courtesy Tom Jones |
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Queensland Star (1)
~ Photo © Skyfotos |
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The Queensland Star was one of two ships built for the
"Colony" trade to Australia & New Zealand. Of similar hull to the
Rockhampton Star which was built at
Birkenhead by Cammell Laird & Company Ltd. with Burmeister & Wain engines,
rather than the Doxford's of the Queensland Star.
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| Foredeck & view aft from
bridge - Photographs © Roger Corfield |
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As was Blue Star Line's habit, she was suitably named for her original
service to Australia. In 1972 she was placed on the South America service,
when the remaining passenger ships were withdrawn from that service
and renamed Brasilia Star.
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Queensland Star with the Orwell Star alongside 1963 ~
Fraser Darrah Collection |
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| Views of Brasilia Star
~ Feb 1977 ~ Photographs © Andrew Barker |
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Queensland Star 1 in a electric storm off the Queensland coast
by Wallace Trickett |
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Queensland Star 1 in the English Channel
by Wallace Trickett |
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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