| Name: | ASHOT-ERKAT or ASHOT ERKAT |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Launched: | 03/05/1897 |
| Completed: | 06/1897 |
| Builder: | William Dobson & Co |
| Yard: | Walker |
| Yard Number: | 88 |
| Dimensions: | 1053grt, 716nrt, 224.0 x 32.0 x 16.6ft |
| Engines: | 2 x 2cyl (20.5 & 39 x 24ins), 124nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 11.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 06/1897 | Armenian Steamship Co, Baku |
| 1913 | Brat’ya Mirzoyevy & Safarov |
| 1920 | Kaspmortran, Baku |
| 1922 | Gosudarstvennoye Kaspiyskoye parokhodstvo, Baku |
| 1923 | A/O ‘Kaspar’, Baku |
| 1924 | Renamed MARTI |
| 1930 | A/O ‘Sovtorgflot’, Baku |
| 1934 | Kaspiskoye gosudarstvennoye morskoye parokhodstvo, Baku |
| 1934 | Parokhodstvo ‘Kasptanker’, Baku |
| 1953 | Kaspiskoye gosudarstvennoye morskoye parokhodstvo, Baku |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | 1910: Deleted from Lloyd’s Register as a "non sea-going vessel |
| in service on the Caspian Sea only" | |
| 18/05/1918: Captured by Red Russian forces at Enseli | |
| 1950’s: Withdrawn from service |
Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 06/05/1897