SS Sinaia
Sinaia in Beirut, September 1941. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Sinaia |
| Owner | Fabre Line |
| Port of registry | Marseille |
| Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. |
| Launched | 19 August 1922 |
| Completed | October 1922 |
| Fate | scuttled 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 8,567 GRT, 5,072 NRT |
| Length | 439.7 ft (134.0 m) |
| Beam | 56.1 ft (17.1 m) |
| Depth | 34.3 ft (10.5 m) |
| Decks | 3 |
| Installed power | 568 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13+1⁄2 knots (25 km/h) |
SS Sinaia was an ocean liner built in 1924 in Whiteinch, Glasgow by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.for the Fabre Line. Its first visit to Providence, Rhode Island, was made on June 28, 1925.
The liner carried Kahlil Gibran's body from Providence, Rhode Island, to the French-controlled Lebanon in 1931. In 1939 Sinaia left the port of Sète with Spanish Republicans seeking asylum in Mexico.
Sinaia was scuttled in 1944.