MV Melbourne Star
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History | |
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Name | MV Melbourne Star |
Builder/Built | 1936 Cammell Laird and Company |
Type | Refrigerated cargo ship |
Displacement | 12,806 tons |
Remarks
Built for Union Cold Storage a Blue Star Line company to transport frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the UK. On 5 Oct 1940 the Melbourne Star was more than 400 miles west of Ireland when bombed by a Luftwaffe aircraft. One bomb hit the ship but failed to explode. The ship was subsequently raked by cannon fire from the plane, wounding a seaman who later died.
In Jul 1941 the Melbourne Star was one of the six ships who