7-432: 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 See also [ edit ] Arabic (disambiguation) [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with
14-559: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles SS Arabic (1881) SS Arabic was a steamship of the White Star Line and its first steel-hulled vessel. Like her predecessors, she was built by shipbuilders Harland and Wolff of Belfast . 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
21-692: The Mersey for the last crossing. On 4 February 1882, she began her service under charter to the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company for their San Francisco-Hong Kong route, departing Liverpool for Hong Kong via the Suez Canal , after which she sailed to San Francisco to begin her trans-Pacific service. On 2 June 1884, she arrived in Hong Kong via Yokohama with a damaged propeller, which necessitated her being dry-docked before returning to San Francisco. She returned to
28-640: The Liverpool-New York run on 12 May and making her final voyage on this run after departing Liverpool on 19 April 1888. In May, she resumed her charter for Occidental & Oriental. In February 1890, Arabic was sold to the Holland America Line for £65,000 and renamed SS Spaarndam . On 29 March, she made her first voyage under the Dutch flag from Rotterdam to New York. After 11 years of service, she made her final voyage on 7 February 1901. In August, she
35-527: The UK in 1886 and made one Australian voyage for Occidental & Oriental (London-Melbourne-Sydney, via Cape Town) on 26 October of that year. She completed her charter upon returning to London early in 1887, after which she sailed to Belfast to have 50 second-class ("intermediate-class") berths installed. She returned to White Star service on the London-Queenstown-New York route from 30 March 1887, resuming
42-498: The same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Arabic&oldid=1048499815 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
49-459: 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. She made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 10 September 1881, at the end of the normal trans-Atlantic crossing season. She made two more round voyages on this route, colliding with the SS Plove while departing
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