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Welcome to our Centaur website celebrating this remarkable and stylish combi liner. This unique passenger cargo ship was the last Blue Funnel passenger ship. She was built by the famous John Brown & Co. (Clydebank) Ltd for service on the Australia to Singapore service. She was retired from service in 1982 after becoming Blue Funnel's last passenger ship and the last liner operating regular scheduled services from Australia. She was much loved in Australia and is remembered with great fondness by those who knew her. After
retirement by Blue Funnel she was briefly chartered for service on the
UK to Ascension, St Helena and South Africa mailship service during the
Falklands War. After this she returned to Blue Funnel and was sold to a
Chinese company. She lingered on in service from Hong Kong to Shanghai
until 1995 when she was retired from service and scrapped. This
website aims to record the history of this fine British ocean liner and
act as
a virtual home to honour and commemorate this fine ship. We hope you
enjoy this
website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon.
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M.S.
CENTAUR ~ The Last of Blue Funnel Line ~
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Fremantle
to Port Swettenham (now known as Port Klang), Georgetown (now known as
Penang) and Singapore "THE SOUTH
EAST ASIA SERVICE" THE OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD, LIVERPOOL. This Website is based on
content from the
SS Maritime website (www.ssmaritime.com)
with the kind permission of Reuben Goossens
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(c) The AJN Transport Britain Collection 2007 A Edward Elliott