[J Brown]

Which year did British rating sail with Blue Star

[Burned Toast]

Originally Posted by J Brown

Which year did British rating sail with Blue Star

Do you not mean when did Blue Star get rid of British ratings?

[kernewekmarnor]

Not many left after 1991 - 1992 I would say.
My last Blue Star vessel was in '91 ACT V which always carried Barbados crew, but by then the reefers had started to flag out and replace the British lads.

[connelpilot]

Hi, there was still british ratings on Blue star ships until 1998,
Snow Cape and the Snow Delta
As far as am aware i was the last ever British deck boy on a Blue Star ship.

Gary Maccuish.

[R58484956]

Greetings Gary and welcome to SN. Bon voyage.

[Pat McCardle]

Originally Posted by connelpilot

Hi, there was still british ratings on Blue star ships until 1998,
Snow Cape and the Snow Delta
As far as am aware i was the last ever British deck boy on a Blue Star ship.

Gary Maccuish.

Those weren't Blue Star ships, might have been carrying BS Funnel colours thats about it!

[connelpilot]

They didnt Have B/S funnels they had Universal reefers funnel

Check the Blue star page and you will find they were blue star ships !!

[Pat McCardle]

I see an ex Blue Star 'A' boat.

[bloomdido]

they were used to be called the santiago and santos star for a while with blue star colours,didnt realise they still had british crew so late

[Pat McCardle]

Originally Posted by connelpilot

They didnt Have B/S funnels they had Universal reefers funnel

Check the Blue star page and you will find they were blue star ships !!

'WERE' as used to be!

[timo]

I knew a guy who got a job on these reefers,He said Blue Star only crewed these ships and nothing else and the only reason there were Brits on board was because it was in the charter agreement that European crews were to be used, as soon as the charters finished ....18 month 2 year the Brits were gone.

[bloomdido]

bit of a typo there pat,not built as blue star ships but the company started to bring ships in, as vesty no longer wanted to build after the paddy wagons were done in the 80s.ie napier,lyttleton,santos and santiago star all from other companies and proved sucessfull on the whole,and unlike a lot of the older blue star vessels no bloody m.a.n main engines thank god!