Caption
Passenger liner "Fairstar", built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Govan, Glasgow as troopship OXFORDSHIRE for Bibby Line (Great Britain). Government trooping charter cancelled December 1962; laid up in Falmouth. Bought by Sitmar Line and refitted at Schiedam 1963-4; renamed FAIRSTAR and registered in Liberia. F.V. Southampton-Australia, 19 May 1964; alternate homeward voyages via Panama.
Tonnage: 23,764
Dimensions: length 609, breadth 78m
Propulsion: Twin Srew, turbines
Speed: 17 knots
Refer - "Pacific Liners 1927-72" By Frederick Emmons
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Source
South Australian Maritime Museum, donated by Mr Keith LeLeu
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