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SS Avoceta
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 that was built in 1885 and sunk by in 1917.
==Building==
In the early 1920s the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company of Dundee built two sister ships for Yeoward Brothers, completing in April 1922 and ''Avoceta'' in January 1923. The pair were similar to that Caledon had built for Yeoward in 1917, having the same size boilers and engine, the same beam and being only longer.〔
''Avoceta'' had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of that heated three single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . 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.
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