MV Dunedin Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1935–36 as one of Blue Star Line's Imperial Star-class ships, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the UK. The ship served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her role in Operation Halberd to relieve the siege of Malta in September 1941.
Dunedin Star was lost at the end of November 1942 when she ran aground at Clan Alpine Shoal in the South Atlantic on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, then South West Africa. A complex sea, air and land operation overcame many setbacks and rescued all of her passengers, crew and gunners. An aircraft, a tug and two of the tug's crew were lost in rescue attempts. It took a month for the last of Dunedin Star's crew to reach Cape Town, and more than two months for the last of the rescuers to return.
MVDunedinStar was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1935–36 as one of Blue Star Line's Imperial Star-class...
Shortly before midnight on Sunday evening, November 29, 1942, the MVDunedinStar was also wrecked there. Marsh, John and Lyman Anson (1958). Skeleton...
Operation Ironclad to capture Madagascar. 29 November – Blue Star Line cargo liner MVDunedinStar runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa...
Zamojszczyzna region of Poland begins. November 29 – The Blue Star Line cargo liner MVDunedinStar runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. Crew and...
Cunene River. 18°08′S 11°33′E / 18.13°S 11.55°E / -18.13; 11.55 (MVDunedinStar) Eduard Bohlen Germany 5 September 1909 A freighter that ran aground...
Imperial Star, Rowallan Castle and City of Calcutta. The starboard column was led by the cruiser Edinburgh followed by Clan Ferguson, MVDunedinStar, HMS...
RFA Darkdale MV Derrycunihy (1943) MV Domala (also listed as SS Empire Attendant) MV Dumana MVDunedinStar MS Dunnottar Castle SS Eaglescliffe Hall MV El Argentino...
MV Brisbane Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1936–37 as one of Blue Star Line's Imperial Star-class...
2014. "Blue Star'sM.V. "Saxon Star" 2". Blue Star on the Web. 9 June 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2014. "Blue Star's S.S. "Brodlea"". Blue Star on the Web...
asylum, before the fire Kaitangata Mine disaster memorial SS Dunedin SS Marlborough MV Kaitawa MV Joyita SS Assaye NAC flight 441 memorial Hyde railway disaster...
siege of Malta. Melbourne Star and Sydney Star took part in Operation Substance in July 1941, Imperial Star and DunedinStar were in Operation Halberd...
Hispaniola and Puerto Rico on the night of 7/8 March by the light cruiser Dunedin and the Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine. Hannover was ordered to stop...
dominance of the Shaw Savill line controlled from London and the (Scotland-Dunedin) Albion line. There were seven initial directors: John Coster, chairman...
(1921) Builder's Data". www.maritimequest.com. "Blue Star'sM.V. "Brisbane Star" 1". Blue Star on the Web. 8 September 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2019...
She was also called SS Celtic Star (1946), SS Murillo (1946–52), SS Bogliasco (1952–54), MV Bogliasco (1954–63) and MV Ocean Peace (1963–67). She was...
MV Zaandam was a Dutch cargo liner. She was one of a pair of motor ships built for Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij...
Theater Areas map 1942 Camp Seabee at Naval Base Brisbane from the air Dunedin at Gardens Reach at Naval Base Brisbane on the Brisbane River. South Brisbane...
Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2014. "MV Seaforth (+1941)". Wrecksite.EU. Archived from the original on 10 November...
schedule when the U-boat U-43 mistook her for a British ship "of the DunedinStar type". U-43 fired a spread of three torpedoes, all three of which hit...
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