SS Arab (1879)

SS Arab was a steamship built by James & George Thomson and launched in 1879 for the Union Steamship Company. She was transferred to the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company in 1901 and scrapped that year at Harburg.

History
United Kingdom
Name: SS Arab
Operator: Union Steamship Company
Port of registry: Southampton
Builder: James & George Thomson, Clydebank
Yard number: 168
Launched: 23 January 1879
Identification: Official number: 76846
Fate: Scrapped, 1901
General characteristics
Type: Steamship
Tonnage: 3170 grt
2044 nrt
Length: 350 feet (110 m)
Beam: 40.2 feet (12.3 m)
Depth: 23.6 feet (7.2 m)

Arab brought home the New South Wales Contingent that had served in Sudan with British forces as part of the Suakin Expedition, arriving at Sydney on 19 June 1885.

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