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Blue Star's M.V. "Fremantle
Star" 2
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Built: |
Cammell
Laird & Company Ltd., Birkenhead |
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301127 |
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Dimensions: |
519' 0" x 70' 3" x 30' 0" feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 8403 Net: 4949 |
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Propulsion: |
8-cyl 2 S.C.S.A
Burmeister & Wain oil engine by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner
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Launched: |
30/12/59 (Yard No. 1290) as
Fremantle Star 2 for Blue Star Line Ltd. |
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Completed: |
04/1960 |
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Transferred: |
1965 to Lamport &
Holt Line Ltd. (Blue Star Line Ltd. managers) |
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Transferred: |
1965 to Blue Star Line
Ltd. |
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Collided: |
05/05/1965 Egyptian
passenger vessel Mecca in the Gulf of Suez |
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Managers: |
1975, Blue Star
Ship Management Ltd. appointed as managers |
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Sold: |
1975 to Caxton
Marine Enterprise Corp. (Blue Star Ship Management Ltd. managers),
Singapore and renamed Catarina |
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Sold: |
1979 to Nan Long Steel & Iron Co. Ltd., Taiwan and
arrived at Kaohsiung, 30/11/1979 to be broken up |
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Demolished: |
04/01/1980 |
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Fremantle Star
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Fremantle Star
~ Port Melbourne ~ 1964 ~ Photograph © Ian Nicholls |
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Fremantle Star
- Photograph © Ron Baker |
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Fremantle Star
on the stocks at Cammell Laird's, Birkenhead ~ Photograph © Harry N.
Owen |
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Fremantle Star
just after launch, with Pierhead, Liverpool in background |
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Fremantle Star
under tow after launch in the Mersey ~ Photographs © Harry N. Owen |
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Fremantle Star
~ Peter Stacey Collection |
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Fremantle Star
~ Liverpool, Aug 1973 ~ Photograph © Gwilym Davies ~ PMSC |
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Fremantle Star
in the Panama Canal by Wallace Trickett |
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Fremantle Star
in San Francisco Bay by Wallace Trickett |
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A series of photographs from Peter Stacey's Collection |
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Fremantle Star - Golden Gate,
San Francisco |
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| Vancouver, B.C., Canada ~ July 1967 |
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New Plymouth ~ 1974 |
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Honolulu ~ 1974 |
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| Queens Quay, Auckland ~ 1974 |
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Queens Quay, Auckland ~ 1974 |
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Fiji ~ 1974 |
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Engine room Gang ~ 1974 |
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Photographs © Andrew Barker |
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| Auckland ~ 1974 |
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New Zealand ~ 1974 |
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New Zealand ~ 1974 |
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| New Plymouth ~ 1974 |
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Lyttelton ~ 1974 |
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Drydock Vancouver ~ 1974 |
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Photographs © Malcolm
Goodfellow |
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| Drydock Vancouver ~ 1974 |
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Drydock Vancouver ~ 1974 |
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Fremantle Star departing Honolulu August 1977 ~ Photograph
© Andrew Barker |
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Fremantle Star laid up at Barry, South Wales - Photograph
© Paul Smith |
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Fremantle
Star laid up at Barry, South Wales 1978 - Photographs ©
Peter Moore |
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Various Blue Star
ships were laid up in Barry, South Wales over several summers in the
late 1970's. This was brought on partially by the trade sanctions
imposed against South Africa's Apartheid system. Ships which normally
carried out the South African Fruit Trade during the season, were no
longer able to trade to South African ports. Barry became a Blue Star
Car Park, with a steady rotation of vessels including the
Andalucia Star 2
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See:
Barry Docks as of July 2007 |
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Fremantle Star - General Arrangement Plan - Courtesy Peter
Stacey |
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The
Mecca embedded in the Fremantle Star
in the Gulf of Suez |
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On the 5th May 1965 the Indian Steamship Companies vessel
Indian Merchant (7,659/44) suffered engine trouble and was in danger of going aground, when about 12 miles south of Ras Garib, in the Gulf of Suez. The
Fremantle Star came to her aid and took her in tow. A number of vessels had passed the two
ships, when the Egyptian passenger vessel Mecca, approached, passing the
Fremantle Star and her tow on her port side. When the
Mecca was abeam of the Blue Star vessel
suddenly and without warning she turned hard to port and crashed into the
Fremantle Star, just forward of the bridge. The
Mecca had an ice reinforced raked bow, which sliced into No. 3 hold on the port side, stopping the
Fremantle Star in her tracks, and at the same time allowing her tow to start to creep up on her. The Captain of the
Indian Merchant had witnessed the entire incident, and luckily his engine room staff had managed to repair the
problem, allowing them to slip the tow and make her way to a nearby safe anchorage.
The Egyptian Master of the Mecca was all for backing out, but Captain Harry Windle of the
Fremantle Star advised him to remain where he was until the damage could be assessed. It was
quickly realised that the Fremantle Star would not sink if the
Mecca reversed away. So this was slowly carried out with boxes of Australian apples spilling out of the gaping hole in
the port side, as the Mecca retreated. The
Fremantle Star then proceeded slowly towards Suez, which she reached safely, but heavily down by the bow. At Port Said, she was dry docked and repaired, and like the
Indian
Merchant, soon returned to service.
Collision details kindly provided by Tony Atkinson
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| The Fremantle Star
shown towing the Indian Merchant and
after being rammed by the Mecca ~
Photographs © John Anderson |
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| Internal damage and pages from an Egyptian
magazine after the incident ~ Courtesy John Anderson |
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In dry dock 1965 |
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Catarina
~ Photograph © Trevor Jones |
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Catarina photographed through the gloom at Kaohsiung,
Taiwan from the |
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Buenos Aires
Star in December 1979 ~ Photograph ©
Kevin Brown |
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Updated:
24/03/2014 |
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