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Blue Star's S.S. "Empire
Talisman"
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Blue Star's S.S. "Tacoma
Star" 2
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Lamport & Holt's S.S. "Murillo" 3
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Built: |
Lithgows Ltd., Port Glasgow,
Scotland |
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ON: |
169512 |
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Dimensions: |
432.7 x 56.2 x 34.4
feet |
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Tonnage: |
Gross: 7197
Net: 4975 |
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Propulsion: |
Triple Expansion
Steam Engines by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Glasgow |
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Type: |
Refrigerated Cargo Liner
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Launched: |
20/04/1944 ( Yard
No.997) as Empire Talisman for The Ministry
of War Transport. Blue Star Line Ltd. appointed managers. |
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Completed: |
06/1944 |
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Chartered: |
06/06/1946 to Blue
Star Line Ltd. for three years under the Ministry's Ship Disposal Scheme
and delivered at Cardiff. |
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Purchased: |
1949 by Blue Star
Line Ltd. and renamed Tacoma Star 2 |
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Transferred: |
1957 to Lamport &
Holt and renamed as Murillo 3 |
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Laid up: |
19/11/1959 in the
Gareloch, Firth of Clyde |
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Sold: |
1961 to Spanish
shipbreakers for £62,000 and arrived Vigo 16/03/1961 for demolition |
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Empire Talisman ~ Fraser Darrah Collection |
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A humble wartime job, with two refrigerated
hatches, a single screw steamer seemingly from another age, despite
being built in 1944, she appears little changed from the
Viking Star of 1919!
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Tacoma Star 2 at
Long Beach, California 1951 ~ Photograph courtesy Ian Wood |
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Model of Tacoma Star 2 by Tony Turvill |
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Tacoma Star 2
Model by Tony Turvill
Photographs ©
David Fox
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Tony Turvill joined the Tacoma Star
(or Empire Talisman as she was then) as deck
cadet on her maiden voyage to Montreal in 1944. The fitting out of the
refrigerated holds was carried out in Montreal due to the shortage of
timber in wartime Britain.
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See:
Tony Turvill’s brief
wartime experience as a Merchant Navy Cadet ~ 1944 to 1946 |
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Tacoma Star
2 in the River Mersey off Birkenhead ~ Painting by Wallace Trickett |
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The tug in
the distance is Minegarth of Rea Towing |
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See: Tacoma Star 1 |
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Updated:
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