GENERAL INFORMATION:
Name: America Star IMO No: 7052909
Ex: ACT 3 Built: 7/1971
Type: Container Status: Demolished
SubType: Flag: Bahamas
DWT: 27,953 Draft: 10.52 Builder: Bremer Vulkan Ag - Schiffbau GT: 24,907 LOA: 217.25 Owner: Blue Star Line
OWNER & FLAG HISTORY:
Beam: 29.04 Depth: 15.93 Engine Type: Sulzer
TEU: 1,472
A regular caller at Pitcairn Island.
On 18 Jan 2003 the vessel called at Auckland for the last time. She was the last vessel trading to carry the Blue Star funnel.
Visited Auckland 104 times between 3 Jul 1991 and 19 Jan 2003
Blue Star Line was founded in 1901 and its cargo passenger liners used to sail from UK ports to South America, Australia and New Zealand and North America.
In the 1960s some 40 vessels were sailing under the Blue Star name.
Various websites.
Pitcairn Is SG636