The Luxury of Yesteryear, Today
Blue Star Liners is sponsored by the Yohannesische Bundesbank - Banking Institution.
Proud sponsors of Guy Layton in the WAC National Championship Series (Motorsports)
Listed on the Yohannesische Börse AG - Stock Exchange.
Proud sponsors of Guy Layton in the WAC National Championship Series (Motorsports)
Listed on the Yohannesische Börse AG - Stock Exchange.
About Blue Star Liners
(And why we do it)
The SS Redfern Docking at Tennantsea, assisted by the Blue Star Tugs.
Blue Star Liners Headquarters - Chesterfield Road, Bel-Gium.
The CEO: Simon Troughton
The Ocean Liner, the most majestic type of vessel to ever sail the seas. These magnificent feats of engineering reached their heyday in the early to mid 20th century. They're still around these days but they don't have the class, style, grace or luxury that they had in their heydays. The advent and refinement of air travel, and the subsequent cheap flights that followed, caused Ocean Liners to fall out of favor and became a shadow of their former glory.
That is where Blue Star Liners comes in. All of our Liners are either restored Liners from the heydays or new builds replicating the style of the originals to a tee. But don't worry, while the ships look and work like they did in their heydays, there are plenty of modern conveniences dotted around the ships, designed to blend in with the ascetics of the ships.
We have the Liners, you have the possible destinations and the potential to be revisited by those bygone heydays of luxury, so fill in the form and become a Blue Star Ocean Liner Destination.
The SS Redfern Docking at Tennantsea, assisted by the Blue Star Tugs.
Blue Star Liners Headquarters - Chesterfield Road, Bel-Gium.
The CEO: Simon Troughton
The Ocean Liner, the most majestic type of vessel to ever sail the seas. These magnificent feats of engineering reached their heyday in the early to mid 20th century. They're still around these days but they don't have the class, style, grace or luxury that they had in their heydays. The advent and refinement of air travel, and the subsequent cheap flights that followed, caused Ocean Liners to fall out of favor and became a shadow of their former glory.
That is where Blue Star Liners comes in. All of our Liners are either restored Liners from the heydays or new builds replicating the style of the originals to a tee. But don't worry, while the ships look and work like they did in their heydays, there are plenty of modern conveniences dotted around the ships, designed to blend in with the ascetics of the ships.
We have the Liners, you have the possible destinations and the potential to be revisited by those bygone heydays of luxury, so fill in the form and become a Blue Star Ocean Liner Destination.
Blue Star Liners was set up in 1870 by Nelson Gartrell, a wealthy business man in the steel industry, who had grown tired of the monotony of the steel foundries and wished to try something new.
The first ship was the SS Adams which was used on the main shipping route that all companies used from The Glorious and United Kingdom of The Floor Kippers and the USA.
What put Gartrell Ahead of the competition was that his ships were based at Tennantsea Port, meaning those traveling from the Capital had a level and relatively straight journey to the Port and the distance between his ship's Terminus and the USA was shorter than the opposition's.
By 1880 the company had ten Liners, by the start of the Twentieth Century the company had nineteen Liners on the route between America and the GUK-FK, however they had lost the SS Adams, which struck a rock off Denber Point and sank, surprisingly with no losses.
The company went into mourning in 1918 when Nelson Gartrell, by then Sir Nelson Gartell passed away in his Mansion Gardens at the age of 82. All ships flew their standard flags, The Company Flag and The United Jack, at half mast along with a black flag. Those ships that still had sails sailed with black sails.
Control of the company was passed on to Sir Nelson's son, Arthur.
In 1930 when the old stock of liner needed replacing the first of the new breed of Blue Star Liner was made; the SS Redfern taking the company into the forefront of Atlantic Travel.
However in the 60's the company's fortunes lessened. With the popularisation of Air Travel the company was forced to move to more modern Liner designs to try and stay cutting edge and, no pun intended, afloat.
In 2028 the company was bought out by Red Tail Limited and a new board of directors and CEO were instated.
The first action of the new management was to sell the fleet of modern Liners the company had at the time and used the money to restore any existing Ocean Liners that happened to be in one piece and were the in the best quality. Three Liners is what they got, the revamped company's "Holy Trinity", consisting of the SS Duchess, SS Redfern and SS Spiridon, two of which were bought from a maritime museum near Rome and one was pulled from a scrapyard near Nice.
From there the revamped company has gone from strength to strength and recently has returned to the company's roots by raising the SS Adams from the sea floor and having her reconstructed and returned to active service.
The first ship was the SS Adams which was used on the main shipping route that all companies used from The Glorious and United Kingdom of The Floor Kippers and the USA.
What put Gartrell Ahead of the competition was that his ships were based at Tennantsea Port, meaning those traveling from the Capital had a level and relatively straight journey to the Port and the distance between his ship's Terminus and the USA was shorter than the opposition's.
By 1880 the company had ten Liners, by the start of the Twentieth Century the company had nineteen Liners on the route between America and the GUK-FK, however they had lost the SS Adams, which struck a rock off Denber Point and sank, surprisingly with no losses.
The company went into mourning in 1918 when Nelson Gartrell, by then Sir Nelson Gartell passed away in his Mansion Gardens at the age of 82. All ships flew their standard flags, The Company Flag and The United Jack, at half mast along with a black flag. Those ships that still had sails sailed with black sails.
Control of the company was passed on to Sir Nelson's son, Arthur.
In 1930 when the old stock of liner needed replacing the first of the new breed of Blue Star Liner was made; the SS Redfern taking the company into the forefront of Atlantic Travel.
However in the 60's the company's fortunes lessened. With the popularisation of Air Travel the company was forced to move to more modern Liner designs to try and stay cutting edge and, no pun intended, afloat.
In 2028 the company was bought out by Red Tail Limited and a new board of directors and CEO were instated.
The first action of the new management was to sell the fleet of modern Liners the company had at the time and used the money to restore any existing Ocean Liners that happened to be in one piece and were the in the best quality. Three Liners is what they got, the revamped company's "Holy Trinity", consisting of the SS Duchess, SS Redfern and SS Spiridon, two of which were bought from a maritime museum near Rome and one was pulled from a scrapyard near Nice.
From there the revamped company has gone from strength to strength and recently has returned to the company's roots by raising the SS Adams from the sea floor and having her reconstructed and returned to active service.
Blue Star Liners' main dock in Tennantsea during its heydays
When using the application form, the last question asks if you wish to have a Blue Star Depot at the destination.
A Blue Star Depot is a place where our ships can dock, take on or let off passengers and goods and restock. While our ships can do this at any port a Blue Star Depot also give a back up plan for those who miss their Liner. Each Blue Star depot comes with a set of Sea Planes to carry late passengers and mail out to the Liner after the ship has left port. Blue Star Depots also give a useful accessible place for Boat Trains to let their passengers walk straight from the Liner to the Train.
