|
« « Back
| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| AVILA |
149791 |
GBR |
|
| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1927 |
22/09/1926 |
03/1927 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
|
| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank |
Clydebank |
514 |
| |
|
| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 12872 grt / 7878 nrt / |
510.2 ft |
68.2 ft |
33.9 ft |
|
| Engine builder |
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank |
| Engine detail |
| 4 x steam turbines, 2007nhp, 2 Screw |
|
| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Blue Star Line (1920) Ltd., London |
London |
08/03/1927 |
| Other names |
| 25/06/1929 AVILA STAR |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 20/05/1930 owners restyled as Blue Star Line Ltd., London |
| Vessel history |
162 x 1st class passengers. Refrigerated cargo space.
1935 lengthened to 550.4 ft and fitted with a Maierform bow by Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd., Jarrow |
| Remarks |
| |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Torpedoed 05/07/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
Torpedoed by U.201 in 38.04N - 55.48W, NE of the Azores on passage Buenos Aires via Freetown for Liverpool
18/08/1942 British registry closed |
| |
|
|
|
Avila Star
Image courtesy of :
|
| |
|