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| Launched 1919: ss OTAKI |
ss OTAKI
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ss OTAKI
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 574 Engines by the shipbuilder
Last Name: PACIFIC STAR (1939)
Previous Names: Laid down as WAR JUPITER;
CLAN ROBERTSON (1934);
STANFLEET (1938)
Port of Registry: London
Propulsion: Two 3 cylinder triple expansion steam reciprocating engines driving twin screws, 5500 ihp, 13 knots.
Launched: Wednesday, 22/10/1919
Built: 1920
Ship Type: Refrigerated Cargo Liner
Ship's Role: Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Tonnage: 7976 gross; 4985 net; 10200 dwt
Length: 449.1ft BP; 465.0ft OA
Breadth: 58.2ft
Draught: 29.3ft
Owner History:
New Zealand Shipping (1920)
Clan Line (1934)
Stanhope Steamers (1938)
Zubi Shipping Co(1939)
Blue Star Line (1939)
Status: Fatally Torpedoed - 27/10/1942
Web site: http://www.bluestarline.org/pacific1.html
Remarks:
22/10/1919: Launched as OTAKI. She had been laid down for The Shipping Controller as the G class standard ship WAR JUPITER.
23/01/1920: Ran trials.
04/02/1920: Delivered to New Zealand Shipping Company.
31/05/1934: Sold to The Clan Line of Steamers Ltd, Glasgow (Cayzer, Irvine & Co Ltd, managers) for £17,500 (Haws quotes £20,000), and renamed CLAN ROBERTSON.
02/12/1938: Sold to the Stanhope Steamship Co Ltd, London (J A Billmeir & Co Ltd, managers), and renamed STANFLEET.
05/07/1939: Sold to the Zubi Shipping Co Ltd, London.
20/11/1939: Sold to Blue Star Line Ltd, London, for £65,000, and renamed PACIFIC STAR.
27/04/1940: Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
27/10/1942: Torpedoed by U509 SW of the Canaries in position 29.16N, 20.57W and abandoned the following day. She was sighted on the 30th, last being seen awash but still afloat. She is presumed to have sunk that night. All of her 85 crew, and 11 gunners, were rescued. She had been bound from Rosario and Freetown to Liverpool in Convoy SL 125 with over 5000 tons of frozen meat and general cargo. Her master, Captain Griffith Lawrence Evans, was later awarded the OBE.
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph with information from Vic McClymont.
Photo (showing her as STANFLEET) supplied by George Robinson.
Last updated: by John Newth from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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