as built: 5 boilers feeding 4 steam turbines driving 2 screw propellers
after rebuild: boilers reduced from 5 to 4
Speed
16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity
162 1st class passengers plus refrigerated cargo
Crew
159 plus (in wartime) 6 DEMS gunners
Sensors and processing systems
direction finding equipment plus
(after 1934) echo sounding device
Armament
(as DEMS)
Notes
sister ship: Avelona Star
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