SS Sinaia explained

SS Sinaia was an ocean liner built in 1924 in Whiteinch, Glasgow by Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd.for the Fabre Line.[1] 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.[2] In 1939 Sinaia left the port of Sète with Spanish Republicans seeking asylum in Mexico.[3]

Sinaia was scuttled in 1944.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence: Immigration to Rhode Island. 9781625847058 . William J . Jennings Jr . Conley . Patrick T. . 9 November 2013.
  2. Book: Kairouz, Wahib . Gibran in His Museum . 1995 . Bacharia . 46.
  3. 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://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724139.

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