Star Class

Star class could refer to:

  • Star-class sailboats raced in the Summer Olympic Games since 1932
  • GWR star-class locomotives from the 19th century.
  • GWR 4000 class locomotives from the early 20th century.
  • Stellar classification
  • Star-class destroyer, a class of eight pre–World War I Royal Navy destroyers.
  • Star-class ferry, a class of five Ro-pax ferries built by Fincantieri, Italy for Finnlines.

Famous quotes containing the words star and/or class:

    “The Star that bids the Shepherd fold,
    Now the top of Heav’n doth hold,
    And the gilded Car of Day,
    His glowing Axle doth allay
    In the steep Atlantick stream,”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “We of the sinking middle class ... may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)