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1950+: Withdrawn from service in 1950’s |