Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship: SOUTH AFRICA STAR (1948 to 1967 General cargo ship 492 feet long of Blue Star Line, London : 1967 scrapped in Japan))

Port of Registry: London (England, U.K.)
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SOUTH AFRICA STAR was completed by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation in 1944 as the escort carrier USS "Winjah"she was transferred almost immediately to the Royal Navy and became HMS "Reaper". 1948 purchased by Blue Star and converted to a merchant ship in Mobile. She had a 180 ton heavy-lift derrick fitted in 1962 and she was broken up in Japan in 1967.