World War I - RMS Arabia was a P&O passenger liner torpedoed on 6 November 1916 by the German submarine UB-43. It was on a homeward bound journey from Fremantle to England when it was sunk without warning by a German U-boat 300 miles off the coast of Malta. 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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World War I - RMS Arabia was a P&O passenger liner torpedoed on 6 November 1916 by the German submarine UB-43. It was on a homeward bound journey from Fremantle to England when it was sunk without warning by a German U-boat 300 miles off the coast of Malta. 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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