SS Arabic (1920)

The SS "Arabic" was a twin-screw passenger steamship with 2 funnels and 2 masts, launched on November 7^th 1908 known then as the "Berlin" and built by the A.G. Weser shipbuilding company in Germany. Her Gross Register Tonnage was advertised at 16,786. She made her maiden voyage on May 1^st, 1909 from New York to Genoa and Bremerhaven. In September 1914 she became an auxiliary cruiser with the German Navy as a minelayer.

In December 1919 she was given to the Shipping Controller under control of P&O. 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 route, which is the route the RMS|Titanic had incompletely travelled just 9 years before. Afterwards, she sailed on the Mediterranean to New York service until 1924 when she was moved to the Hamburg to New York route, later that year her passenger accommodation was modified, and on October 29^th, 1926 Arabic made her first voyage under charter to the rival Red Star Line and resumed doing so until 1930 when she reverted back to the White Star Line and her passenger accommodation was again modified. Less than one year later she was sold for breaking up at Genoa.

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