Brodholme / Gothicstar / Gothic Star 1

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Brodholme / Gothicstar / Gothic Star 1

		Blue Star's S.S. "Brodholme" Blue Star's S.S. "Gothicstar" Blue Star's S.S. "Gothic Star"1

Built:	Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Clydebank
ON:	108793
Dimensions:	420.5 x 54.7 x 28.8 feet
Tonnage:	Gross: 5713 Net: 3643
Propulsion:	Triple Expansion Steam Engine of 493 NHP, 3 single-ended boilers at 160 lb/sq"
Type:	Refrigerated Cargo Liner
Launched:	16/12/1898 (Yard No.333) as *Nairnshire* for Elderslie S.S. Co. Ltd., Glasgow (Turnbull, Martin & Co. managers)
Completed:	02/1899
Sold:	1910 to Scottish Shire Line Ltd., same managers
Purchased:	2/06/1915 by Brodholme S.S. Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line Ltd. managers) and renamed *Brodholme*
Torpedoed & Damaged	10/6/1918 by the German Submarine UC 53 in the Mediterranean
Transferred:	1920 to Union Cold Storage Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line (1920) Ltd. managers) and renamed *Gothicstar*
Renamed:	1929 as Gothic Star 1
Owners:	Restyled as Blue Star Line Ltd.1930
Sold:	1938 to Italian shipbreakers for £11,250 and arrived at Savona 4/7/1938 to be broken up

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S.S. *Gothicstar* at Liverpool
One of several vessels obtained during WWI from Scottish Shire Line to increase the meat carrying capacity of the company. Surviving WWI she gave a commendable 40 years of service in total. As with all the early vessels prefixed with "Brod" after Evelene Brodstone, the formidable trouble-shooter who would later become Lady Vestey. Like her sisters she was renamed with the "Star" suffix, later the "Star" was separated from her name as became the practice after 1929.

S.S. *Gothicstar*

See: Magicstar



Updated: 28/06/2012

Blue Star's S.S. "Brodholme"