MV Melbourne Star

History
Name	MV Melbourne Star
Builder/Built	1936 Cammell Laird and Company
Type	Refrigerated cargo ship
Displacement	12,806 tons

Remarks

Built for Union Cold Storage a Blue Star Line company to transport frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the UK. On 5 Oct 1940 the Melbourne Star was more than 400 miles west of Ireland when bombed by a Luftwaffe aircraft. One bomb hit the ship but failed to explode. The ship was subsequently raked by cannon fire from the plane, wounding a seaman who later died.

In Jul 1941 the Melbourne Star was one of the six ships who

Soldiers carried

Egypt to Port Adelaide 28 Mar - 20 Apr 1942

• Ernest Arnold Fallon