SS Sinaia
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]
 Sinaia in Beirut, September 1941. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| 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 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.[4]
The SS Sinaia was scuttled in 1944.[1]
References
- "Sinaia SS (1924~1943) Sinaia SS (+1944)". Shipwreck.eu. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
08/1944 – Scuttled off Cap Janet, Marseille.
- William J Jennings JR; Conley, Patrick T. (19 November 2013). Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence: Immigration to Rhode Island. ISBN 9781625847058.
- Kairouz, Wahib (1995). Gibran in His Museum. Bacharia. p. 46.
- Martin Schieder: ¿Que pasa a bordo? ¿Que pasa en el mundo? The Crossing of Spanish Republican Refugees on the SS Sinaia to Mexico (1939), in: Getty Research Journal, 17/2023, S. 81-106; URL: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724139.
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