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Name: ASIA also seen as AZIYA
Type: Tanker
Launched: 18/04/1898
Completed: 1898
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 683
Dimensions: 1331grt, 831nrt, 230.0 x 32.0 x 17.2ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (10 & 38 x 24ins), 118nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1898 Shamsi Asadulayev, Astrakhan & Baku
18/05/1920 Red Russian forces
1920 Kaspmortran, Baku
1923 A/O ‘Kaspar’, Baku
1930 A/O ‘Sovtorgflot’. Baku
1934 Caspian Shipping, Baku
1938 Parokhodstvo ‘Kasptanker’, Baku
No later history known
Comments: 1910: Deleted from Lloyd’s Register as Caspian Sea service only
1920: Based at Enzeli by the Red Russian forces
1950+: Withdrawn from service in 1950’s