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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. ==Building and early career== 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 long, had a beam of and a draught of .〔 She had 32 oil-fired corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of heating three double-ended and two single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of .〔 Her boilers supplied steam at 200 lbf/in2 to four Parsons〔 steam 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 . ''Almeda'' was painted in Blue Star Line's standard livery of the era. Her hull was black, her boot-topping red and her masts white.〔 Her stokehold ventilators were black and her deck ventilators were white, and the insides of her ventilator cowls were red.〔 She had two funnels and they were red with a black top, with a narrow white and a narrow black band and on each side a large blue star on a white disc.〔 In her original form ''Almeda''s funnels had a type of cowl called an "Admiralty top".〔 ''Almeda'' made her maiden voyage on 16 February 1927, inaugurating Blue Star Line's route between London and Buenos Aires ''via'' Boulogne, Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Santos and Montevideo.〔 Her passage was scheduled to take 18 or 19 days.〔 In the course of 1927 Cammell Laird completed two sister ships, SS ''Andalucia'' and SS ''Arandora''.〔 In 1929 ''Arandora'' was converted into a cruise ship by reducing her cargo space and enlarging her passenger accommodation, and the three sisters were renamed ''Almeda Star'', and .〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Almeda Star」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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