Port Line
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Port Line was a passenger and cargo shipping company, initially formed as the Commonwealth and Dominion Line in 1914, and in operation in one form or another until 1982.
11,945 GRT cargo ship Port Auckland, built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co in 1949
Port Caroline, one of the last cargo liners (Hamburg, 1969)
Blue Star Line
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The Blue Star Line was a British passenger and cargo shipping company formed in 1911, being in operation until 1998.
Trojan Star, built in France in 1916 and bought by a Blue Star-controlled company in 1924
Plans for the liners Avila and Avelona, built in 1926–27
Brisbane Star after her bow was rebuilt in 1943. She had been damaged by a torpedo during Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in 1942.
Brasil Star, launched in 1947, was one of the replacements for war losses