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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.
Postcard of SS Arabic. In December 1919 she was a war reparation to P&O Line. About a year later in 1920 she was purchased by the White Star Line, based in Liverpool and was refitted in Portsmouth, it was then she was renamed the SS Arabic. In September 1921 she made her maiden voyage as a White Star Line ship, via the Southampton to New York ...
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 See also
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
SS Traffic was a tender of the White Star Line, and the fleetmate to the Nomadic. She was built for the White Star Line by Harland and Wolff , at Belfast , to serve the Olympic -class ocean liners .
Leaning into the microphone in Saudi Arabia's capital, Nora let loose a primal scream. The performance by Seera, an all-women psychedelic rock band that blends traditional Arabic melodies with the ...
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]
Originally intended to be named Asiatic, she was the first steel-hulled vessel built for White Star.She was completed as the Arabic on 12 August 1881. Like her sister Coptic, she was designed as a combination cargo/passenger freighter; while able to accommodate both steerage and second-class passengers, she was primarily designed to carry cargo and livestock.