| Name: | RUBY |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 05/06/1873 |
| Completed: | 10/1873 |
| Builder: | John Softley & Co |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | 94 |
| Dimensions: | 245grt, 149nrt, 130.2 x 20.0 x 11.1ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (16 & 30 x 24ins), 40rhp |
| Engines by: | Wilson & Hall, North Shields |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 68479 |
| History: | |
| 11/10/1873 | Young & Brodie, North Shields |
| 1874 | Wee Bin & Co (Wee Boon Tek), Singapore |
| 1903 | Eng Toon Ghee, Singapore |
| 1909 | Tan Kah Kee, Singapore |
| 1912 | Unknown owner, China |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | Launched as JAMES TAYLOR, delivered as RUBY |
| 22/09/1888: Wee Boon Tek died & Lim Ho Puah named as executor | |
| Understood to have been lost during WW1 (1914 - 1918) |