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Blue
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Built: |
Bartram
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334552 |
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Dimensions: |
151.44 x 19.89 x 7.871/8.992 metres |
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Tonnage: |
Gross : 8366 Net : 4775 |
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Propulsion: |
8-Cyl S.C.S.A. Sulzer oil engine by
George Clark and
N.E.M. Ltd., Sunderland |
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Type: |
Fully refrigerated 5 hatch cargo ship with 150 Ton Stülcken heavy
lift derrick |
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Launched: |
26/2/1967 (Yard No. 408) as
Timaru Star 2 for
Blue Star Line Ltd.. |
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Completed: |
7/1967 |
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1975: |
Blue Star Ship Management Ltd. appointed managers |
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Severely damaged: |
17/10/1978 by fire while lying at Cardiff Docks
Sold: 1983 to Crest Hill Shipping Ltd. ( Blue Star Ship Management
Ltd. managers) and registered at Hong Kong. Renamed Crest Hill |
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Laid up: |
18/6/1984 at Jebel Ali |
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Sold: |
1985 to Chinese shipbreakers and arrived at Huangpu 1/3/1985 |
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Timaru Star in S.2 Seaforth Dock, Liverpool - Photos © Philip
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| Timaru Star
~ Liverpool ~March 1972 ~ Peter Stacey
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| Timaru Star -
Photographs © Fraser Darrah |
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View from Bluff Hill, Napier, N.Z., 1981 |
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Pictured in Suva - Photograph © David Bell-Lennan |
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Built at Bartram's yard in Sunderland in
the 1960's and possibly the last vessel to
be completed by them
because delivery was delayed. Similar in some ways to the Canterbury Star class,
but with the addition of a 150 ton Stülcken heavy
lift derrick.
She visited Liverpool on her maiden outward
loading and a great deal of painting and other necessary finishing jobs were
still outstanding, so she didn't get a good start to life. Keith Bradley
sailed as Chief Engineer on her maiden voyage.
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| Timaru Star loading tuna at Levuka, Fiji in 1973
Photographs © Peter Stacey |
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Timaru Star at Auckland ~ 1974 ~ Photograph ©
Andrew Barker |
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On the 17th October 1978 while lying at Cardiff Docks her accommodation severely
damaged by fire. Two Officers were tragically killed.
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Cutting from the South Wales Echo
Kindly supplied by Steve Nick from Cardiff, who remembers
working on her at the time. |
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Updated:
18-02-2008 |
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