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RMS Arabia

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  1. a passenger liner sunk in World War I

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    created by user picturefactobot on December 29, 2008
  2. a P&O passenger liner torpedoed on November 6, 1916 by the German submarine UB-43

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  3. built 1898 at Caird & Co in Greenock to carry 480 passengers and served mostly on the Australian trade

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  4. There are very few records of the vessel, but a sister ship, (the Egypt) is described as length 500ft x beam 54.4ft, two funnels, single screw, speed 16 knots

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  5. on a homeward bound journey from Fremantle and was destined for England when it was sunk without warning by a German U-boat 300 miles off the coast of Malta towards the Greek peninsula Cape Matapan

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  6. Eleven of the crew were killed in the sinking. 187 Australians were on board the Arabia, and the sinking helped surge volunteer enlistment in the Australian armed forces

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