HMS Arab

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Seven vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Arab:

• was a 16-gun sloop-of-war, originally the French corvette Jean Bart, captured in 1795 in the English Channel by and , and wrecked in 1796.
• was an 8-gun schooner, the former French Arabe, captured in 1797, renamed Ant in 1798, and sold in 1815.
• was a 22-gun post ship, originally the French flush-decked privateer Brave, captured in 1798 and fitted as a quarter-decked sloop in the same year. She was sold in 1810. She became a whaler, making seven voyages to the British southern whale fishery. Sank in 1824.
• was an 18-gun launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1823 off Ireland.
• was a 16-gun launched in 1847. She was transferred as Coastguard watchvessel No. 18 in 1863 and was broken up in 1879.
• was an , launched in 1874 and sold in 1889.
• was a destroyer launched in 1901 and sold in 1919.

See also

• , a naval trawler commanded by Richard Stannard VC. He received the VC for his actions from 28 April to 2 May 1940 at Namsos, Norway, when HMT Arab survived 31 bombing attacks in five days.