SS Avoceta Passenger Lists 1936
The largest vessel launched during 1923 was the passenger and fruit steamer Avoceta of 3,445 tons and 2,500 I.H.P., built by the Caledon Company, Dundee, for the Yeoward Line, Liverpool. The Avoceta is the seventh vessel built by the same firm for the same owners within a period of 12 years.
All Digitized Passenger Lists For the SS Avoceta Available at the GG Archives. Listing Includes Date Voyage Began, Steamship Line, Vessel, Passenger Class and Route. View SS Avoceta Ephemera and History.
1936-04-18 SS Avoceta Passenger List
- Steamship Line: Yeoward Line
- Class of Passengers: Tourist
- Date of Departure: 18 April 1936
- Route: Liverpool to Tenerife, Madeira, and Return to Liverpool
- Commander: Captain D. McPhee
Passenger Lists contained in the GG Archives collection represent the souvenir list provided to the passengers of each cabin class (and other classes). Many of these souvenir passenger lists have disappeared over the years. Our collection contains a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines.
Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., Dundee.
Passenger and fruit-carrying steamer Avoceta; 330 ft. by 44 ft. molded, by 21ft. 6 in. molded to the upper deck. The seventh vessel built by the Caledon Company to the order of the Yeoward Line, Liverpool. It is intended to trade between Liverpool and the Canary Islands. The ship has a complete shelter, upper and main decks, with promenade and boat decks amidships. Accommodation is provided on the upper, shelter, and promenade decks for 120 first-class passengers. A dining saloon, extending the full breadth of the vessel, is situated on the upper deck, and a ladies' room, smoking room, and library are on the shelter and promenade decks. The triple-expansion engines, constructed by the shipbuilders, take steam from three single-ended boilers working under Howden's forced draught system. They launched from the Caledon Yard on 21st September 1922.
"Launches and Trial Trips," in The Shipbuilder: The Journal of The Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering, and Allied Industries, Vol. XXVII, No. 146, October 1922, pp. 216-217
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