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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1918}} | Ship name=USS Arabian | Ship namesake=Previous name retained | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=John H. Dialogue & Sons, Camden, New Jersey | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1896 | Ship acquired=29 October 1918 | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service=5 November 1918 | Ship out of service=31 January 1919 | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= Returned to owner 31 January 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Operated as commercial tugboat Arabian 1896-1918 and from 1919 | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Arabian was a harbor tug that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. Arabian was built as a commercial steam tug of the same name in 1896 by John H. Dialogue & Sons at Camden, New Jersey. She was active in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. On 29 October 1918, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a bareboat charter from her owner, Mr. P. F. Martin of Philadelphia, for use during World War I. She never received a naval registry identification number, but was placed in service as USS Arabian on 5 November 1918. World War I ended on 11 November 1918, six days after Arabian was placed in service. No longer needed, she never received an assignment and apparently never saw active naval service. The Navy returned her to Martin on 31 January 1919. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a10/arabian.htm}}
- Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Arabian (1918-1919). Originally the Civilian Harbor Tug Arabian
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Arabian
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