Trojanstar/Trojan Star 1

		Blue Star's S.S. "Trojanstar"
		Blue Star's S.S. "Trojan Star" 1

Built:	Ateliers et Chantiers de France, Dunkirk
ON:	148498
Dimensions:	473.8 x 60.0 x 36.6 feet
Tonnage:	Gross: 9037 Net: 5620
Propulsion:	Twin screw, Two Triple Expansion Steam Engines + double reduction geared turbines with hydraulic couplings producing 1,106 nhp. Seam raised by 5 x single ended boilers at 200 lb/sq". 13 kts
Type:	Refrigerated Cargo Liner with accommodation for 12 passengers
Launched:	9/11/1916 ( Yard No.99) as La Perouse for Cie Générale d'Armements de France, Dunkirk
Completed:	11/1916
Purchased:	1924 by Union Cold Storage Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line (1920) Ltd., managers) and renamed Trojanstar
Registered:	1926 under Blue Star Line (1920) Ltd
Renamed:	1929 *Trojan Star*
Refitted:	1935 at Smith's Dock, South Shields for the Australian service. Bauer-Wach exhaust turbines were fitted to each engine, superheaters to the boilers which were also converted to oil burning. This increased her service speed by 2 kts. Additionally her main & mizzen topmasts were removed
Owners:	Restyled Blue Star Line Ltd.1930
Collided:	23/03/1938 with the *Albert Leo Schlageter* (1937) a German sail training in the Dover Straits. The *Albert Leo Schlageter is* now the Portuguese *Sagres*
Sold:	1955 to British Iron & Steel Corporation, allocated to Bolckow Shipbreaking Co. Ltd., and arrived at Blyth 25/5/1955 to be broken up.

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*S.S. Trojan Star ~* Fraser Darrah Collection


*S.S. Trojan Star ~* Fraser Darrah Collection

Purchased in 1924 from Cie Générale d'Armements de France to augment tonnage lost in WW1, she was one of six similar vessels built between 1915 and 1917 in Britain and France. The British trio were the Leitrim (1915) for the Union S.S Co. of New Zealand and the *Cumberland* (1915) and *Westmorland* (1917) for the Federal S.N. Co. Ltd. The French trio were the Devon, *Jaques Cartier* and the La Perouse.

Trojan Star 1 in the Bristol Channel post WWII by Wallace Trickett

On October 7^th1954 a serious fire broke out in No.3 Hold, while the vessel was some 1700 miles from Colombo, Sri Lanka. While it was brought under control by the crew, it was not fully extinguished until some 5 days latter in Colombo. Repairs were later effected at Brisbane, but with this together with heavy weather damage finally put the nail in her coffin. On return to the UK she was sold after 31 years of service in the Blue Star Line. She was apply named.

The Portuguese Sail Training Vessel *Sagres* with which the Trojan Star collided in 1938 - Photograph courtesy of António Gonçalves


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