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SS ''Aquila'' (originally SS ''Duke of Sparta'') was a cargo ship built in Britain in 1940 for Stavros Livanos' Trent Maritime Co Ltd. by William Gray & Company.〔 An identical sister, , was made for Trent at the same time. In 1947–48 ''Duke of Sparta'' was involved in controversy over alleged treatment of Nigerian stowaways. She was sold to Grimaldi Brothers of Naples, Italy, in 1951, who renamed her ''Aquila''.〔 She was in the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia in April 1958 when a CIA aircraft involved in a covert mission against the Sukarno government bombed and damaged her. She sank a month later. Her wreck off Ambon City is now a popular scuba diving site. ==Building== William Gray & Company built ''Duke of Sparta'' in their yard at West Hartlepool on Tees-side.〔 They launched ''Duke of Sparta'' in July 1940〔 and completed her that October.〔 The ship had nine corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of that heating three single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of .〔 These fed steam at 225 lbf/in2 to a three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine that developed 492 nominal horsepower.〔 The engine was built by the Central Marine Engineering Works, which was part of Wm Gray & Co.〔 The ship's navigation equipment included direction finding apparatus and an echo sounding device〔 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 Aquila (1940)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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