SS Arabic (1920)

SS Arabic at sea
History
German Empire
NameBerlin
OperatorNorddeutscher Lloyd
BuilderAG Weser, Bremen
Launched7 November 1908
Completed25 April 1909
CommissionedOctober 1914[1]
FateInterned 18 November 1914
United Kingdom
NameArabic
Operator
Acquiredby purchase, November 1920
In service7 September 1921
FateSold for scrapping, December 1931
General characteristics [2]
Tonnage16,786 GRT
Displacement23,700 t
Length613 ft (187 m)
Beam69 ft 8 in (21.23 m)
PropulsionQuadruple expansion steam engines, 16,000 ihp (11,931 kW), 2 propellers
Speed19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Capacity
  • 3212 passengers:
  • 266 × 1st class
  • 246 × 2nd class
  • 2,700 × 3rd class
Crew410

SS Arabic, originally built as Berlin, was a passenger steamship launched on 7 November 1908 which was built by the AG Weser shipbuilding company in Germany. Her gross register tonnage was advertised at 16,786 tons. She made her maiden voyage on 1 May 1909 from New York to Genoa and Bremerhaven. In September 1914 she became an auxiliary cruiser with the Imperial German Navy as a minelayer.

Berlin remained in Norway for the duration of the war. In 1919 she was transferred to Britain as war reparations and put into service as the White Star Line's Arabic. In 1931 she was discarded and broken up for scrap.

  1. ^ Hawkins p63
  2. ^ "Arabic (III)". oocities.org. 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.