| Name: | ARBUTUS |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 1854 |
| Completed: | 11/1854 |
| Builder: | T Toward |
| Yard: | St Peter's, Newcastle |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 348grt, 213nrt, 179.9 x 22.6 x 12.3ft |
| Engines: | 2cyl (34.5 & 34.5 x 20ins), 75nhp; (1889: C2cyl (19 & 36.5 x 28ins), 90nhp) |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle; (1889: George Clark, Sunderland) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 18205 |
| History: | |
| 22/11/1854 | William Whelan, Lancaster; registered at Lancaster |
| 30/10/1865 | Alexander A Laird, Glasgow; registered at Glasgow |
| 12/02/1866 | Belfast Steamship Company; registered at Belfast |
| 16/04/1872 | James S Campbell, Dublin; registered at Dublin |
| 28/01/1880 | John M Inglis & William Hewat, Dublin |
| 22/12/1883 | James Tulloch & Co, Aberdeen. |
| 1884 | Registered at Aberdeen |
| 18/02/1885 | Robert Taylor, Dundee; registered at Dundee |
| 01/1890 | Arbutus Rederi, Flekkefjord, Norway |
| 17/01/1890 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 1889: Engine compounded |
| 17/01/1890: Wrecked on the Farne Islands, Northumberland | |
| On a voyage from Dundee to Seaham in ballast |