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MV Brisbane Star

IMO 5052151United Kingdom

Operated by White Star Line

Photo: Allan C. Green 1878 - 1954 · Public domain · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About MV Brisbane Star

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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 ships, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom. The ship served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her role in Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in August 1942. She was owned by a succession of Blue Star-controlled companies until 1963, when she was sold to a Liberian-registered company who renamed her Enea. Later that same year she was scrapped in Japan.

Quoted from MV Brisbane Star on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 5052151
IMO check digit: Valid

In context

How MV Brisbane Star compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,835 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the United Kingdom flag.

The registry attributes 51 vessels to Cammell Laird, with a median tonnage of 4,791 GT, delivered between 1913 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5052151 this registry holds 9 other vessels, whose median build year is 1950 and which range from 1922 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 5052151, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 5×5 + 2×4 + 1×3 + 5×2 = 81 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.