At least three ships have been named ''Star'': * , was built in Calcutta in 1800. Between 1803 and 1811 she made three

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voyages. (In 1805 she transferred her registry to Great Britain.) From 1812 she sailed as a merchantman until she was wrecked on 18 December 1829 on a voyage to Jamaica. * , was launched in New York in 1812. She was captured in 1813. In 1815 she sailed to Batavia under a license from the British

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(EIC). On her way back a privateer from the United States captured her in a notable

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and then sent her into New York. * , originally ''Merzario Hispania'' and later MS ''Nordic Ferry'', a car ferry * , a fast

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launched in 2006 and operated by Tallink beginning in 2007. In 2023, the vessel was chartered by

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and renamed ''Oscar Wilde'' and then in 2024, ''James Joyce''. In 2025 the vessel returned to Tallink and regained her original name MS ''Star''.

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