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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| AVOCETA |
147174 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1923 |
21/09/1922 |
01/1923 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee |
Stannergate |
279 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 3442 grt / 1879 nrt / |
319.0 ft |
44.2 ft |
26.5 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (25, 42, 68 x 42in), 395nhp, 1 screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Yeoward Line Ltd. - Yeoward Bros., Liverpool |
Liverpool |
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| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1941 |
Torpedoed 25/09/1941 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 25/09/1941 torpedoed by U.203 in 47.57N - 24.05W on passage Lisbon and Gibraltar for Liverpool. |
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AVOCETA
Image courtesy of : Coll. of Richard Cox
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