Name: | PORT ALBANY |
Type: | Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 12/02/1914 |
Completed: | 29/05/1914 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 464 |
Dimensions: | 5707grt, 3532nrt, 426.3 x 54.1 x 29.3ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (27.5, 39, 56 & 81.5 x 54ins), 767nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 136676 |
History: | |
12/05/1914 | Commonwealth & Dominion Line Ltd, London |
1929 | Union Cold Storage Co Ltd (Blue Star Line, managers), London; renamed OREGONSTAR |
1929 | Renamed OREGON STAR |
01/05/1934 | Broken up |
Comments: | 12/02/1914: Launched for Wm Milburn & Co, Newcastle |
1929: Sold for £40,000 | |
13/11/1932: Caught fire while being refitted at buoys off Palmers' Hebburn yard and was declared a total loss. She was then laid up in the Tyne until finally sold by the underwriters for scrap for £5,350 | |
01/05/1934: Broken up at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow & Co |
Above photo as PORT ALBANY is copyright of the State Library of Queensland
Above photo as PORT ALBANY is copyright of J Ingram
Above photo as OREGON STAR is copyright of A Duncan