List of ships named Arabia

A number of ships have been named Arabia including:

• Arabia (1851), a paddle passenger and mail steamer launched for Cunard, sold to Royal Mail Line and completed as La Plata ^[1]
• Arabia (1852), a paddle passenger and mail steamer built for Cunard, scrapped in 1867
• Arabia (1853), a steamboat sunk in the Missouri River in 1856 and excavated from 1988 to 1989
• Arabia (1853), a barque foundered in Lake Huron in 1884, now a diving site
• Arabia (1863), a passenger-cargo liner built for British India Steam Navigation ^[2]
• Arabia (1883), a passenger-cargo liner built for Anchor Line ^[3]
• Arabia (1896), a cargo liner built for Hamburg America Line, renamed Barcelona, and an Italian prize in WW2 ^[4]
• Arabia (1897), an ocean liner and mail steamer built for P&O and torpedoed in 1916
• Arabia (1901), a cargo liner built for Hamburg America Line, ^[5]
• USS Arabia (ID-3434) (1903), a fishing trawler that served as a naval patrol vessel in commission 1918–1919
• Arabia (1925), an Italian cargo liner, captured in 1940, becoming a Royal Navy coaling hulk ^[6]

References

1. "La Plata". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
2. "Arabia". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
3. "Arabia". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
4. "Arabia". Harland & Wolff. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
5. "Arabia". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
6. Colledge, J J (1970). Ships of the Royal Navy: an Historical Index, Vol 2. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 27.