| Name: | ABELIA |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 05/06/1914 |
| Completed: | 01/1915 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 860 |
| Dimensions: | 3680grt, 2318nrt, 350.2 x 47.3 x 24.3ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Oil engines, 2SCSA, 4cyl (16.125 x 33.875), 302nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 10.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 139067 |
| History: | |
| 12/07/1915 | Flower Motor Ship Co Ltd (Sir M Samuel & Co Ltd), London |
| 30/12/1915 | Sank |
| Comments: | An early design of motorship with engines positioned aft |
| The engines were deemed to have been unsatisfactory. See press report | |
| 30/12/1915: Captured, shelled & sunk by U-Boat U34, 170 miles NxE of Benghazi | |
| On a voyage from Bombay to Hull with a cargo of manganese ore & cottonseed |
Pall Mall Gazette, Saturday, 26/06/1915