SS Avoceta
British steam passenger liner sunk during World War II / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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SS Avoceta | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Avoceta |
Namesake | Spanish for avocet |
Owner | Yeoward Line |
Operator | Yeoward Brothers |
Port of registry | Liverpool |
Builder | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Dundee |
Yard number | 279[1] |
Launched | 21 September 1922 |
Completed | January 1923 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk by torpedo, 25 September 1941 |
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 |
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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.[4]