New ship: MV New Zealand Star

This Simutrans ship is based in the real MV New Zealand Star 2, a refrigerated goods cargo vessel run by Blue Star Line Ltd. This ship was built in 1967, and she was refitted into a containership in 1977 and renamed as Wellington Star 3. She was broken up in 1993 at Chittagong.

The real specifications for this ship are (taken from bluestarline.org):

• Length: 168,36 m
• Beam (~"width"): 22,36 m
• Draught (~"height"): 9,96 m
• Cargo capacity: N/A
• Max. speed: 16 knots (~30 Km/h)
• Engine power: N/A

See picture at Blue Star Line website

After a bit of work using blender, this are some results:

Blender renderized output

Simutrans screenshot

This ship has been coded into Simutrans as a modern cooled goods ship, which has to fill the timeline gap between 1967 and 1990, but it might be modified to cover a longer/different sting.

Simutrans object data

Type	Ship
Name	New Zealand Star
Freight	meat
Capacity	320 t
Max.Speed	30 Km/h
Intro Year	1967
Retire Year	N/A

This vehicle is available in the Pak128 2.0. See the Pak128 web site for more info.

For more information on this ship check the following links:

• Blue Star Line website