SS ''Arab'' was a steamship built by James & George Thomson and launched in 1879 for the
Union Steamship Company. She was transferred to the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company in 1901 and scrapped that year at Harburg.
''Arab'' brought home the
New South Wales Contingent
The New South Wales Contingent served in Sudan with British forces as part of the Suakin Expedition in 1885. Consisting of an infantry battalion, an artillery battery, and a small field ambulance detachment, it departed from Sydney on 3 March ...
that had served in
Sudan with British forces as part of the
Suakin Expedition, arriving at Sydney on 19 June 1885.
External links
The Ship List - Union Steamship CompanyClyde built ships - ''Arab''
1879 ships
Ships built on the River Clyde
Steamships of the United Kingdom
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