| Name: | BUTESHIRE |
| Type: | Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 10/10/1893 |
| Completed: | 12/1893 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 316 |
| Dimensions: | 5574grt, 3636nrt, 420.0 x 54.0 x 28.7ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (30, 48 & 78 x 54ins), 467nhp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 102653 |
| History: | |
| 12/1893 | Elderslie Steamship Co Ltd (Turnbull, Martin & Co), Glasgow |
| 1910 | The Scottish Shire Line Ltd, Glasgow |
| 1915 | Bollington Grange SS Co Ltd (Houlder Bros, Co Ltd), Glasgow |
| 1915 | Renamed BOLLINGTON GRANGE |
| 1916 | Furness-Houlder Argentine Lines Ltd, Glasgow; renamed CANONESA |
| 1918 | Government of the UK |
| 1919 | Brodway Steamship Co Ltd (Blue Star Line Ltd), London; renamed MAGICSTAR |
| 1920 | Union Cold Storage Co Ltd (Blue Star Line (1920) Ltd), London |
| 1929 | Broken up |
| Comments: | The forward funnel as built was an enlarged 'stove pipe' for the donkey boiler |
| 01/05/1918: Torpedoed & damaged by U-Boat UB57. 8 crew died | |
| Bizarrely the attack blew a lifeboat into the air and it landed on the aft funnel | |
| Deemed a CTL she was handed over to the UK Government as war loss insurers | |
| 1919: Purchased by Blue Star and rebuilt, losing her forward funnel | |
| 1929: Broken up at Inverkeithing by TW Ward Ltd |
Above photo as BUTESHIRE is copyright of Capt EE Sigwart
Above photo as BUTESHIRE is copyright of the State Library of Victoria
Above photo as MAGICSTAR is copyright of the Fraser Durrah Collection