SS Almeda Star
British turbine steamer, 1926–1941 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SS Almeda Star, originally SS Almeda, was a British turbine steamer of the Blue Star Line. She was both an ocean liner and a refrigerated cargo ship, providing a passenger service between London and South America and carrying refrigerated beef from South America to London. She was built in 1926, significantly enlarged in 1935 and sunk by enemy action in 1941.
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Name | |
Owner | Blue Star Line[2] |
Operator | Blue Star Line[1] |
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Route | London – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires[3] |
Ordered | 1925[1] |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead[2] |
Yard number | 919[1] |
Launched | 29 June 1926[1] |
Completed | December 1926[2] |
Maiden voyage | 16 February 1927[1] |
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Fate | Sunk by U-96 17 January 1941[5] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner & refrigerated ship |
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Length | as built: 512.2 ft (156.1 m)[2] after rebuild: 578.9 ft (176.4 m)[4] |
Beam | 68.3 ft (20.8 m)[2] |
Draught | 28 ft 1 in (8.56 m)[2] |
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Propulsion | as built: 5 boilers feeding 4 steam turbines driving 2 screw propellers[2] after rebuild: boilers reduced from 5 to 4[4] |
Speed | after rebuild: 16 knots (30 km/h)[3][6] |
Capacity | passengers plus refrigerated cargo |
Crew | 136 crew plus (in wartime) 29 DEMS gunners |
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