Albatros

Albatros have always turned out very nice die-cast models of post war cargo ships and the refrigerated cargo liner SS Fremantle Star is no exception.

The handsome Fremantle Star was launched for Blue Star Line in 1959 and had a relatively short life, being broken up by the 4th January 1980.

Built in 1951 as TJILUWAH and taken over by Pacific International Lines (PIL) in 1972, it served the Singapore / Fremantle routes
Singapore / Malaysia as a cruise ship for the Australians. A route to GB added later
9020 GRT, 146.11 x 19.08m, 16kn, cargo and passenger ship
230 passengers in one class, crew: 200. In 1984 the ship was scrapped!

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P&O Orient-Lines, 

The ship sailed in the colors of the Orient Line in the first few years, As modelled, from the 70s the ship was only used for cruises. 1986 sold to Japan

the ORIANA served as a museum ship in Beppo. 1995 sold to China where it was an hotel ship in Shanghai until 2002 in Shanghai. Scrapped in 2005

Passenger & cargo ship of the Adelaide S.S.Co., Melbourne. Built 1935 in the shipyard of Stephen & Sons, Glasgow. 10856

BRT, 146.9m Loa x 20.2m, drive via 2 Screws, max. 18.5 kn.

Used in coastal traffic between Sydney and Fremantle but taken over in 1939 to become an auxiliary cruiser of the Royal
Australian Navy, converted into a landing ship in 1942. 1949 first voyage as a passenger ship again, sold to Indonesia in 1961 and renamed AMBULOMBO for employment in the pilgrimage traffic. In 1972 sank on the way to scrapping in Kaohsiung.

Albatros ALK701A Germantown LSD-42 Landing Ship Model

A 1/1250 scale fully finished and painted model of Changsha, a China Navigation Co ship from 1949. New model for 2016.

A 1/1250 scale fully finished and painted model of MS Kota Panjang, a Pacific International Lines  in Singapore 1969 (ex MS Changsha).

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New for 2012! Cunard's Mauretania as a hospital ship in 1915. Mauretania, Britannic and Aquitania were to be seen evacuating casualties from the island of Mudros in the Aegean in 1915.

A 1/1250 scale fully finished and painted model of MS Enskeri 

P&O Orient-Lines, London in the colors of the Orient-Line. Built by Vickers Armstrong, delivered in 1960. 245 x 29.62m,

41,920 BRT, turbine drive, maximum 27.5 kn. 2134 passengers, crew: 903
Scheduled service from the UK to Australia and New Zealand. ORIANA was that
largest ship that was ever commissioned by the Orient-Line and carried the
Pet names of Queen Elizabeth I

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16 Jan 2019 - The "Helen Mary" as been detained at sea on Jan 15, 2019, by Marine Scotland on suspected fishery offences!

LCAC-100 are hovercraft used by the US Navy to transfer staff and equipment from ship to shore. Albatros has produced these craft to go with the USS America and USS Tripoli.