Born in Greenock on 31st March 1896. SON OF WILLIAM AND ISABELLA DOWIE GRIFFIN OF 7 INGLESTON ST., GREENOCK. Sheet iron worker in Scotts

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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James Watson Griffin