SS Sinaia
Sinaia in Beirut, September 1941. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Sinaia |
| Owner | Fabre Line |
| Port of registry | Marseille |
| Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. |
| Launched | 19 August 1922 |
| Completed | October 1922 |
| Fate | scuttled 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 8,567 GRT, 5,072 NRT |
| Length | 439.7 ft (134.0 m) |
| Beam | 56.1 ft (17.1 m) |
| Depth | 34.3 ft (10.5 m) |
| Decks | 3 |
| Installed power | 568 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13+1⁄2 knots (25 km/h) |
SS Sinaia was an ocean liner built in 1924 in Whiteinch, Glasgow by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.for the Fabre Line. Its first visit to Providence, Rhode Island, was made on June 28, 1925.
The liner carried Kahlil Gibran's body from Providence, Rhode Island, to Lebanon in 1931. In 1939 Sinaia left the port of Sète with Spanish Republicans seeking asylum in Mexico.
Sinaia was scuttled in 1944.