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SS Abukir
SS ''Abukir'' was a British coastal steamship that was launched in 1920 as SS ''Island Queen'' and renamed in 1934 as SS ''Kyle Queen''. In 1935 she was renamed ''Abukir'' and registered in Egypt. In May 1940 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea while evacuating UK and Belgian soldiers, airmen and civilians from Ostend on the last day of the Battle of Belgium.
==Building and peacetime service==
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson built the ship at Wallsend on the River Tyne in north-east England, completing her in November 1920. She had three corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of that heated one single-ended boiler with a heating surface of . This fed steam at 180 lbf/in2 to a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine of 97 Rated Horsepower (RHP) that drove a single screw.〔
She was built as ''Island Queen'' for the London and Channel Islands Steamship Company, which appointed Cheesewright and Ford of London to manage her.〔 In 1934 London and Channel Islands sold the ship to Monroe Brothers of Liverpool, who renamed her ''Kyle Queen''.〔 In 1935 Monroe Brothers sold her to the Khedivial Mail Steamship and Graving Dock Company of Alexandria,〔 which operated ships and docks for the Kingdom of Egypt. The company, which traded as the Khedivial Mail Line (KML), renamed the ship ''Abukir'' after the coastal town of Abu Qir on the edge of the Nile delta and registered her in Alexandria.〔 In 1936 the company was reconstituted as the Pharaonic Mail Line,〔 but continued trading as the KML.
In March 1939 ''Abukir'' ran aground at Larnaca, Cyprus. She was refloated six days later.
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