SS Aguila
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Aguila |
| Namesake: | Spanish for eagle |
| Owner: | Yeoward Line |
| Operator: | Yeoward Brothers |
| Port of registry: |
 Liverpool
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| Route: | Liverpool – Lisbon – Las Palmas – Tenerife – Liverpool |
| Builder: | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Dundee |
| Yard number: | 242 |
| Completed: | November 1917 |
| Identification: |
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| Fate: | sunk by torpedo, 19 August 1941 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | 315.3 ft (96.1 m) |
| Beam: | 44.2 ft (13.5 m) |
| Draught: | 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) |
| Depth: | 18.5 ft (5.6 m) |
| Decks: | two |
| Installed power: | 395 NHP |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Armament: | DEMS |
| Notes: | sister ships: Alondra, Avoceta |
SS Aguila was a British steam passenger liner. She was built in Dundee in 1917 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.
Aguila is Spanish for eagle, and a popular name for ships. This was the second in Yeoward Brothers' fleet, the first Aguila having been built in 1909 and sunk by U-28 in 1915.
The Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company of Dundee built Aguila, completing her in November 1917. She had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 189 square feet (18 m2) that heated three single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 7,054 square feet (655 m2). 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, giving her a speed of 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph).
Aguila bore similarities to Ardeola that Caledon had built for Yeoward's in 1912. The two ships had the same beam, Aguila was just 5.1 feet (1.6 m) longer and her engine was rated as producing 50 more NHP. In the early 1920s Aguila was joined by a pair of slightly longer sister ships, Alondra and Avoceta, completed by Caledon in April 1922 and January 1923.
By 1930 Aguila had wireless direction finding equipment, and from 1934 she had an echo sounding device. Up to 1933 Lloyd's Register records no code letters for Aguila, but when the new wireless call signs were introduced for 1934, she was designated GPVD.
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