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SS Arabic was a British-registered ocean liner that entered service in 1903 for the White Star Line. She was sunk on 19 August 1915, during the First World War , by German submarine SM U-24 , 50 mi (80 km) south of Kinsale , causing a major diplomatic incident.
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.
SS Arabic may refer to: SS Arabic (1881) SS Arabic (1902), an ocean liner sunk by German submarine U-24 on 19 August 1915; SS Arabic (1920), the former SS Berlin; renamed Arabic in 1920; broken up in 1930
Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with three "German crimes" that also took place within 48 hours: the Germans' sinking of SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Danish coast, and their attack on the crew of the steamship Ruel after they had ...
While the general location of her sinking is known, Cymric's wreck has not been located. [11] Between 1914 and 1918 about 50 large oceangoing passenger steamships converted to war purposes as floating hospitals and troop transports were sunk in the Atlantic by the German navy. [12] SS Cymric came to be the thirty-seventh in the list. [13]
The plan is to tug the SS United States along the East Coast and ultimately to Mobile, Alabama, to be stripped and prepped to be sunk. Then the ship’s final home will be under about 180 feet (55 ...
The SS United States could travel at a speed of 38.32 knots (44.1 mph), which still holds the record for ocean liners.
SS Andrea Doria – Ocean liner sunk after a collision off Massachusetts in 1956 , Nantucket Sound. This dive is becoming less common, as the rapid deterioration of the wreck is making diving more difficult on top of the already treacherous dive to reach the vessel. SS Arratoon Apcar – 19th-century British steamship that is now a wreck in Florida