Scottish Star 3

Blue Star's M.V. "Scottish Star" 3

Star Reefers' M.V. "Scottish Star"

Built:

Harland & Wolff, Belfast

ON:

705941

IMO number:

8315994

Class:

DNV 1A1 Reefer/-25/32c/EO

Dimensions:

151.00 x 22.00 x 12.675 metres

Tonnage:

Gross : 9900 Net : 5400

Propulsion:

7-Cyl 2 S.C.S.A Burmeister & Wain 7L67 GBE oil engine of 15,200 B.H.P. at 123 rpm by shipbuilders Service Speed: 21 kts.

Type:

Refrigerated Cargo Liner with banana doors

Launched:

23/09/1984 ( Yard No.1722) as Scottish Star for Lombard Leasing Metropolitan Ltd. ( Blue Star Ship Management Ltd. managers)

Delivered:

2/04/1985

Transferred:

2/1998 to Albion Reefers (Star Reefers managers)

Sold:

07/2001 to Norwegian owners

Operated:

2001 by The Star Reefers Group

Owners:

2002 Star Reefers I AS

Sister Ships:

Auckland Star 3 , Canterbury Star 2 & English Star 2

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Scottish Star at Capetown 1986

One of a class of four ships built at Harland & Wolff of Belfast, they were the last of a long line of ships to be built for Blue Star Line and known as the Harland Class. With four fully refrigerated hatches and fitted with "Banana doors" they are a versatile class of ship. With modern hydraulically operated poppet valve 2-stroke B&W engines, 4 x Allen Alternators, J&E. Hall screw refrigeration compressors and fully automated machinery operation they are well thought out ships.

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At Capetown and in the English Channel - 1986

On the River Elbe and at Hamburg Hamburg 1986

With the sale of Blue Star Line to P. & O. Nedlloyd in February 1998, they were retained within the Vestey organisation and were operated by Star Reefers a combine of Hamburg Sud and Albion Reefers. In July 2001 the Group announced that Star Reefers, operating a fleet of 24 ships had been sold to Norwegian Owners. The Norwegian Owners forged a joint operation with the Japanese NYK Group, and a new company, NYK Star Reefers Ltd.
This has now become The Star Reefers Group based in the Cayman Islands with offices in Norway.


Two views of the Scottish Star at Newark, N.Y. in August 1989 taken from the Auckland Star
Photographs © Martin Daniels


Scottish Star taken from Battery Point, Portishead April 2004 in Star Reefer Group livery. She had arrived from New Zealand on the 26th April to discharge cargo. ~ Photographs © Ross Robson

Scottish Star taken from Battery Point, Portishead 26th April 2004

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