NORTHERN STAR

Northern Star 1962-1975. (Pass.) SS&A 1962-1975.

ON: 304076
LR/IMO/ID: 5257543
Year: 1962
Name: NORTHERN STAR
Type: Passenger ship
Flag: GBR
Launched: 27.6.61 by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Completed: 10.6.62
Owner: Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd., GBR Southampton.
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker on Tyne.
Yard No: 175
Link: 1490
Starke: V1962 #932
GRT: 24,731
DWT: 7,483
LOA: 198.1
LPP: 181.4
Beam: 25.5
2ST-19.5 knots.

1965 The year of the “Green Funnel”.

1968 Jul.2nd Northern Star's first cruise.

1975 Nov.2nd withdrawn from passenger operations.

1975 BU Kaohsiung 11.12.75 [Li Chong Steel & Iron Works Co]

Photo Credits: The Alexander Turnbull Library

Cheers and GB

Gordy