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M/S Estrella To Estrella on the "Ships starting with E" page. Owner: Skibs-A/S Nye Kristianiaborg Delivered in July-1920 from NV Werf Voorheen Rijkee & Co., Rotterdam (59) as Athene to D/S A/S Ada (K. Salvesen), Kragerø, Norway. "The World's Merchant Fleets", R. W. Jordan gives tonnage as 3888 gt, 6700 tdwt, while "Bergenske, byen og selskapet", Dag Bakka Jr. gives 5154 gt, 7160 tdwt (I believe 3888 gt is correct), 375.7' x 51.5' x 22.7', 2 x 6 cyl. Werkspoor diesel 2300 bhp, 11.5 knots. Purchased by Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab in Jan.-1921, renamed Estrella (I've been told she was the sistership of Para), and placed in Syd-Amerikalinjen (South America Line), but from 1925 in other service. Sold in Aug.-1937 to Skips-A/S Nye Kristianiaborg (A/S Rederiet Odfjell), Bergen.
Estrella, cargo of steel for Liverpool, is listed among the ships in Convoy HX 74 from Halifax to the U.K. in Sept./Oct.-1940. In Jan.-1941 we find her in Convoy OB 269, which left Liverpool on Jan. 3, dispersed on the 6th. She's also included in Convoy BN 23, leaving Aden on Apr. 7, arriving Suez on the 13th. The external website that I've linked to below has more on both these convoys. The same site also has her in the slow Convoy SC 49, which left Sydney, C.B. on Oct. 11-1941 and arrived Liverpool on Oct. 27. She had a general cargo as well as 7 passengers on that voyage. In Dec. that same year she was scheduled for Convoy OS 14, but instead joined the next convoy, OS 15, voyage Liverpool - Buenos Aires/Capetown/Bombay with general cargo. In May-1943 she's listed in Convoy SC 130 which left Halifax on May 11 and arrived Liverpool on the 26th - however, it looks like she must have returned to port. She's crossed out from the next convoy, SC 131, then shows up again in Convoy SC 132, which departed Halifax on May. 26, and is also listed in SC 134, leaving on June 16, so probably didn't sail in any of the former convoys. When in SC 134 she was bound for Barry Dock, general cargo and lumber. In the spring of 1944 she shows up in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 234, which left Liverpool on Apr. 26 and arrived New York on May 12. Estrella's destination is given as St. John's on that occasion. This convoy will be added to my site - in the meantime, please go to ON 234 in the section listing ships in all ON convoys.
New machinery installed in 1946 (2 x 6 cyl. General Motors), remeasured to 3797 gt. Owned from 1953 by Skibs-A/S Hassel (A/S Rederiet Odfjell), Bergen? Purchased in July (Sept.?)-1954 by A/S Rona & D/S A/S King (Tollak J. Skogland), Haugesund and renamed Reina. Sold in Nov.-1958 ('56?) to Cia. Nav. Overseas Transport S. A., Panama. Arrived Toulon on July-8-1960 for breaking up. (Tollak J. Skogland also had another Reina; see post war details for Kong Sverre). Related external link: Back to Estrella on the "Ships starting with E" page. Other ships by this name: Norway had lost a steamship by this name to WW I, originally delivered as Sandwarine in 1912 to owners in Manchester, 1757 gt. Renamed Estrella for Bergenske D/S in 1914, struck a mine on March 5-1918 off Harwich with the loss of 20 men. Bergenske D/S also had an Estrella post WW II, delivered as such in Jan.-1961. Renamed Estrella del Mar for owners in Montevideo in Apr.-1978, later sailed as Del Mar for owners in Malta from 1987. Broken up in 1988?
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