Class and type Arabis-class sloop Fate Sunk, 10 February 1916 Launched 6 November 1915 | Name HMS Arabis Beam 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) Draft 3.58 m | |
Displacement 1,250 long tons (1,270 t) Length 255 ft 3 in (77.80 m) p.p.
267 ft 9 in (81.61 m) o/a Builders D. and W. Henderson and Company, Glasgow | ||
HMS Arabis was an Arabis-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She had a brief career, serving during the First World War.
She was built by D. and W. Henderson and Company, of Glasgow as Yard No 497, and was launched on 6 November 1915. She was involved in a minesweeping exercise off the Dogger Bank during the night of 10 February 1916, when she was encountered by a flotilla of German destroyers. A brief action followed which led to the torpedoing and sinking of Arabis with the loss of 56 of her crew.
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