SS Sinaia
Sinaia in Beirut, September 1941.
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History | |
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Name | Sinaia |
Owner | Fabre Line[1] |
Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.[1] |
Fate | Scuttled in 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner[1] |
Tonnage | 8,567 gross register tons (GRT)[1] |
Length | 134 m (440 ft)[1] |
Beam | 17.1 m (56 ft)[1] |
Height | 10.5 m (34 ft)[1] |
Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)[1] |
The SS Sinaia was an ocean liner built in 1924 in Whiteinch, Glasgow by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.for the Fabre Line.[2][1] Its first visit to Providence, Rhode Island, was made on June 28, 1925.[1]
The liner carried Kahlil Gibran's body from Providence, Rhode Island, to Lebanon in 1931.[3] In 1939, the SS Sinaia left the port of Sète with Spanish Republicans seeking asylum in Mexico.
The SS Sinaia was scuttled in 1944.[1]
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Categories:
- Ocean liners
- Scuttled vessels