SMITH'S DOCK COMPANY LTD., SOUTH BANK

Name ARABIS (hull only, completed by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, Yard no. 922)
Type Cargo
Yard Number 550
Launched 12/03/1914
Completed 09/1914
Off. Number 136783
Engine builder Neptune
Engine type Twin screw diesel, aft
GRT 3697
Length (feet) 350
Beam (feet) 47.1
First owner Flower Motor Ship Co. Ltd. (Sir Marcus Samuel & Co.), London
   
Fate 16/09/1917 torpedoed by U.54 when 210 miles W by S of Ouessant on passage Sfax for Falmouth with phosphate rock.

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