SMITH'S DOCK COMPANY LTD., SOUTH BANK

Name ANDALUCIA STAR
Type Refrigerated Cargo
Yard Number 1329
Launched 15/01/1975
Completed 06/1975
Off. Number 365848
Engine builder J. G. Kincaid & Co. Ltd., Greenock
Engine type 2 SCSA 9cyl. Burmeister & Wain
GRT 9784
Length (feet) 511.2
Beam (feet) 70.1
First owner Blue Star Line Ltd. (Blue Star Ship Management)
   
History 1984 Highvale Ltd. (Wallem Ship Management), Hong Kong
  1984 renamed FIFE
  1986 ORANGE STAR, Adriatic Reefers Corporation, Liberia (Suisse-Outremer, Switzerland)
  1986-1987 converted to a bulk orange juice tanker at Bremen
  2010 STAR IV, NKD Maritime BVI Ltd., St. Kitts & Nevis
   
Fate 13/11/2010 arrived at Alang for breaking, beached on 20/11/2010

Photo from Harold Appleyard ...

... and as ORANGE STAR by Mike Ridgard

.... and by Reinier van de Wetering, inward for Rotterdam on 29/01/2006

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