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On 31 January 1940, Dunedin Star left London for Brisbane again. It spent Christmas of 1939 sailing west across the Indian Ocean and New Year's Day of 1940 in Cape Town, then called at Las Palmas. Three days later, the ship began its return voyage, and called at Newcastle, New South Wales, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. It called at Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenço Marques, Sydney and Rockhampton, and reached Brisbane on 26 November. On 10 October 1939, the ship left Liverpool for Brisbane. As it was a fast merchant ship, it sailed unescorted until November 1940. Second World War service Īfter the United Kingdom entered the Second World War in September 1939 Dunedin Star initially continued its cargo liner service between Britain and Australia. Its navigation equipment included wireless direction finding, an echo sounding device and a gyrocompass. Dunedin Star had a pair of 9-cylinder two-stroke single-acting Sulzer Bros marine Diesel engines developing a total of 2,516 NHP and driving twin screws. The Imperial Star class were motor ships. It was owned by Union Cold Storage, a ship-owning company controlled by Blue Star Line. 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.Ĭammell Laird and Co in Birkenhead, England built Dunedin Star, launching it on 29 October 1935 and completing it in February 1936. An aircraft, a tug and two of the tug's crew were lost in rescue attempts. A complex sea, air, and land operation overcame many setbacks and rescued all of its passengers, crew, and gunners. It served in the Second World War and is distinguished for its role in Operation Halberd to relieve the siege of Malta in September 1941.ĭunedin Star was lost at the end of November 1942 when it ran aground at Clan Alpine Shoal in the South Atlantic on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, then South West Africa. It 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 United Kingdom. MV Dunedin Star was a UK refrigerated cargo liner. 2 × 9-cylinder Sulzer Bros marine Diesel engines.