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Name | Avondale Park |
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Builder | Pictou Shipyard, Foundation Maritime Ltd |
Launched | February 1944 |
Completed | May 1944 |
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Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-2336, 7 May 1945 |
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Length | 315 ft 5 in (96.14 m) |
Beam | 46 ft 5 in (14.15 m) |
Depth | 22 ft 9 in (6.93 m) |
Installed power | Triple expansion steam engine |
Propulsion | Screw propellor |
Crew | 34, plus 4 DEMS gunners |
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Avondale Park was a 2,872 GRT cargo ship which was built by Pictou Shipyard at Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1944. She was the last merchant ship to be sunk by Germany in the Second World War, on 7 May 1945, the day of German surrender. She was built as merchant steamship constructed for Canada’s Merchant Navy in 1944 as part of Canada's Park ship program.