SS Almeda Star
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 United Kingdom
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| Owner: | Blue Star Line |
| Operator: | Blue Star Line |
| Port of registry: |
 London
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| Route: | London – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires |
| Ordered: | 1925 |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Yard number: | 919 |
| Launched: | 29 June 1926 |
| Completed: | December 1926 |
| Maiden voyage: | 16 February 1927 |
| Out of service: | 17 January 1941 |
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| Fate: | sunk by U-96 |
| Status: | wreck |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | ocean liner & refrigerated ship |
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| Length: |
as built: 512.2 ft (156.1 m) after rebuild: 578.9 ft (176.4 m) |
| Beam: | 68.3 ft (20.8 m) |
| Draught: | 28 ft 1 in (8.56 m) |
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| Propulsion: |
as built: 5 boilers feeding 4 steam turbines driving 2 screw propellers after rebuild: boilers reduced from 5 to 4 |
| Speed: | after rebuild: 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Capacity: | passengers plus refrigerated cargo |
| Crew: | 136 crew plus (in wartime) 29 DEMS gunners |
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| Notes: | |
as built: 512.2 ft (156.1 m)
as built: 5 boilers feeding 4 steam turbines driving 2 screw propellers
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.
In 1925 Blue Star ordered a set of new liners for its new London – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires route. Cammell Laird of Birkenhead built three sister ships: Almeda, Andalucia and Arandora. John Brown & Company of Clydebank built two: Avelona and Avila. Together the quintet came to be called the "luxury five".
Cammell Laird launched Almeda on 29 June 1926 and completed her in December. She was launched under her original name of Almeda. As originally built she was 512.2 ft (156.1 m) long, had a beam of 68.3 ft (20.8 m) and a draught of 28 ft 1 in (8.56 m). She had 32 oil-fired corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of 560 square feet (52 m2) heating three double-ended and two single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of 30,600 square feet (2,840 m2). Her boilers supplied steam at 200 lbf/in2 to four Parsonssteam turbines with a combined rating of 2,078 NHP or 13,880 shp. Her four turbines were single-reduction geared onto the shafts to drive her twin propellers at about 120 RPM, giving her a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h).
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