SS Persia (1900) SS Persia (1900) SS "Persia" was a P&O passenger liner, built in 1900 by Caird & Company, Inverclyde, Greenock, Scotland. It was torpedoed and sunk without warning on 30 December 1915, by German U-boat . It was long, with a beam of , draft of and a size of , "Persia" carried triple expansion steam engines capable of driving the ship at . "Persia" was sunk off Crete, while the passengers were having lunch, on 30 December 1915, by German World War I U-Boat ace Max Valentiner (commanding ). "Persia" sank in five to ten minutes, killing 343 of the
Previously Unaired Christmas insensitive by being wildly insensitive, but Glee's started to do that on an almost weekly basis now." Previously Unaired Christmas "Previously Unaired Christmas" is the eighth episode and fall finale of the fifth season of the American musical television series "Glee", and the ninety-sixth episode overall. It was directed by Wendey Stanzler and written by Ross Maxwell, and it aired on Fox in the United States on December 5, 2013. The episode is the show's fourth Christmas special, but due to season five being set in the same calendar year as season four, it is a non-canonical episode which purports