ASIATIC  / ARABIC  / SPAARNDAM

BUILT IN 1881 BY HARLAND AND WOLFF FOR THE WHITE STAR LINE AT THEIR BELFAST YARD. SHE ORIGINALLY  WAS TO BE  NAMED 'ASIATIC, BUT WHEN  LAUNCHED HER NAME WAS CHANGED TO 'ARABIC' . SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 4,368 TONS AND HAD A SPEED OF THIRTEEN KNOTS.SHE WAS CHARTERED BY THE OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL LINE IN 1882. IN 1890 SHE WAS SOLD TO THE HOLLAND AMERICA LINE AND WAS RE-NAMED 'SPAARNDAM' .SHE WAS SCRAPPED IN 1901.