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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 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
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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 ...
Layton notes that the wreck was sold for a mere £1000, and that despite the bombardment, the state of the wreck was such that expeditions in 1993 and 2011 could verify the intact state of the cargo hold, including "neatly stacked" ammunition. [224] Another debated topic is the degree of blame that can be placed on Captain Turner.
The SS United States could travel at a speed of 38.32 knots (44.1 mph), which still holds the record for ocean liners.