High-speed ro/ro passenger/vehicle ferry “Tai Min Star” (臺閩之星) at Keelung on 23rd May 2013
Owner: Strait Express, Keelung
Flag: Taiwan
Port of registry: Keelung
Builder: Alstom Leroux Naval, Lorient, France (Hull-824)
Gross tons: 9,351
Deadweight: 869
Length overall: 134.0 m
Max. draft: 3.24 m
Propulsion: CODAG: 2 x MTU 1163 TB73LV20 diesels, 17,675 b.h.p.; 2 x General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines, 50,000kW; 4 x water jets
Service speed: 42 knots
Capacities: 1,116 passengers, 250 cars
Completed May 2000 as “NGV Limone” for Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM), Marseilles.
Chartered November 2019 to Raromatai Ferry Co.(Compagnie Maritime de Polynésie Française), Tahiti, renamed “King Tamatoa”
Sold November 2012 to Strait Express.
Seized by the authorities 2014 due to debts by the owner; laid up at Tainan; a subsequent auction failed to find a buyer so was abandoned.
Broken up in situ 2020