No.883 Oxfordshire launched in 1955

21,618grt for Bibby Line from Fairfield, Glasgow IMO 5267732

Fairstar 1964 Fairstar Shipping Corp (Sitmar) – later with P&O Australia

Ripa 1997 Breakers

Scrapped Alang 1997

As a troopship was the running mate, not sister ship, of British India’s Nevasa

Photo from Peter Thomas, Alberto Bisagno & Mike Cornwall

As the newly converted Fairstar in Aden

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2 Responses to No.883 Oxfordshire launched in 1955

  1. Leonard Hastings's avatar Leonard Hastings says:

    I wonder if the Fairstar still had drop-down bunks on chains as the troopship and saltwater showers

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