SS Sinaia

Sinaia in Beirut, September 1941.
History
France
Name	Sinaia
Owner	Fabre Line [1]
Port of registry	Marseille
Builder	Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd. [1]
Launched	19 August 1922
Completed	October 1922
Fate	scuttled 1944
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner [1]
Tonnage	8,567  GRT, [1] 5,072  NRT
Length	439.7 ft (134.0 m) [1]
Beam	56.1 ft (17.1 m) [1]
Depth	34.3 ft (10.5 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	568 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	13+1⁄2 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 the French-controlled 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]

References

1. "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.