SS Aguila

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 having been built in 1909 and sunk by in 1915. Building and equipment 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 that heated three single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . 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 . Aguila bore similarities to that Caledon had built for the Yeoward Line in 1912. The two ships had the same beam, Aguila was just 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, and , completed by Caledon in April 1922 and January 1923.