| Name: | ARAB |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 20/05/1890 |
| Completed: | 08/1890 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 640 |
| Dimensions: | 4248grt, 2674nrt, 375.0 x 46.3 x 20.4ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (28, 45 & 74 x 48ins), 434nhp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 97806 |
| History: | |
| 30/07/1890 | Bedouin Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W & R Thomson), Liverpool |
| 1902 | RJ Melville, Hong Kong |
| 1902 | BHA Michaelson (MS Dollar SS Co), Victoria BC |
| 1904 | MS Dollar Co Ltd (MS Dollar SS Co), Victoria BC; renamed M S DOLLAR |
| 1905 | Government of Japan; renamed RYOKI MARU or TAPPI MARU |
| 1906 | Stanley Dollar Co Ltd, Victoria BC; renamed STANLEY DOLLAR |
| 1906 | Renamed M S DOLLAR |
| 1912 | Dollar Steamship Lines Ltd (The Robert Dollar Co), Victoria BC |
| 1914 | Registered at San Francisco |
| 1915 | AR Burkhill & Sons, Shanghai; renamed ARAB |
| 07/01/1918 | Sank |
| Comments: | 27/01/1905: Captured by Japanese cruiser ASAMA in the Tsugaru Strait |
| On a voyage from San Francisco to Vladivostok with a cargo of provisions | |
| Subsequently condemned by a prize court | |
| 1905: Sources differ regarding her Japanese naming | |
| 07/01/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UB50, 18 miles NxE of Cape Serrat | |
| On a voyage from Cardiff to Messina with a cargo of coal |