SS Sinaia

Sinaia in Beirut, September 1941.
History
France
NameSinaia
OwnerFabre Line[1]
Port of registryMarseille
BuilderBarclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.[1]
Launched19 August 1922
CompletedOctober 1922
Fatescuttled 1944
General characteristics
TypeOcean liner[1]
Tonnage8,567 GRT,[1] 5,072 NRT
Length439.7 ft (134.0 m)[1]
Beam56.1 ft (17.1 m)[1]
Depth34.3 ft (10.5 m)
Decks3
Installed power568 NHP
Propulsion
Speed13+12 knots (25 km/h)[1]

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 Sinaia left the port of Sète with Spanish Republicans seeking asylum in Mexico.[4]

Sinaia was scuttled in 1944.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Sinaia SS (1924~1943) Sinaia SS (+1944)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ Jennings Jr, William J; Conley, Patrick T. (9 November 2013). Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence: Immigration to Rhode Island. ISBN 9781625847058.
  3. ^ Kairouz, Wahib (1995). Gibran in His Museum. Bacharia. p. 46.
  4. ^ Schieder, Martin: ¿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://doi.org/10.1086/724139.