| Name: | ARAS |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 30/03/1893 |
| Completed: | 06/1893 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | 672 |
| Dimensions: | 3210grt, 2088nrt, 325.0 x 42.7 x 28.7ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (24, 40.5 & 64 x 42ins), 295nhp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 101829 |
| History: | |
| 06/1893 | Bessler, Waechter & Co (Stephens & Mawson, managers), London |
| 1894 | Transferred to Aras Steam Ship Co Ltd (Bessler, Waechter & Co, London) |
| 1901 | Managers became Stephens, Sutton & Stephens, London |
| 16/11/1917 | Managers became British Tanker Co Ltd |
| 25/10/1918 | Petroleum Steamship Co Ltd |
| 1930 | Tito Campanella Societa di Nav, Italy; renamed LINA CAMPANELLA |
| 05/1945 | Government of Yugoslavia |
| 1950 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 23/05/1944: Damaged by bombing at Cherso |
| 05/1945: Taken as a prize by the Yugoslavian Government | |
| Used as a hulk by the Yugoslavian Navy | |
| 1950: Broken up at Split |
Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Saturday, 01/04/1893