SS Avoceta
| History | |
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Avoceta |
| Namesake: | Spanish for avocet |
| Owner: | Yeoward Line |
| Operator: | Yeoward Brothers |
| Port of registry: |
 Liverpool
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| Builder: | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Dundee |
| Yard number: | 279 |
| Completed: | January 1923 |
| Identification: |
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| Fate: | sunk by torpedo, 25 September 1941, killing 123 people |
| Status: | wreck |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | 319.0 ft (97.2 m) |
| Beam: | 44.2 ft (13.5 m) |
| Draught: | 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) |
| Depth: | 26.5 ft (8.1 m) |
| Decks: | two |
| Installed power: | 395 NHP |
| Propulsion: |
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| Sensors and processing systems: |
wireless direction finding |
| Armament: | DEMS |
| Notes: | sister ships: Aguila, Alondra |
SS Avoceta was a British steam passenger liner. She was built in Dundee in 1923 and was sunk by enemy action in the North Atlantic in 1941. She belonged to Yeoward Line, which carried passengers and fruit between Liverpool, Lisbon, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Avoceta is Spanish for avocet. Yeoward Brothers had a previous ship called Avocet that was built in 1885 and sunk by U-50 in 1917.
In the early 1920s the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company of Dundee built two sister ships for Yeoward Brothers, completing Alondra in April 1922 and Avoceta in January 1923. The pair were similar to Aguila that Caledon had built for Yeoward in 1917, having the same size boilers and engine, the same beam and being only 3.7 feet (1.1 m) longer.
Avoceta had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 189 square feet (18 m2) that heated three single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 7,054 square feet (655 m2). These fed steam at 180 lbf/in2 to a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine that was rated at 395 NHP and drove a single screw.
In the Second World War Avoceta continued Yeoward Brothers' service to neutral Portugal, Spain and the Canary Islands. She made nine trips to Las Palmas, six of which also included a call at Tenerife. Others were to one or another mainland port: one to Almeria, two to Valencia and 11 to Lisbon. Her final visit to the Canaries was in March 1941; thereafter she served only Lisbon and Gibraltar.
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