| Name: | EQUATOR also seen as EKVATOR |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 01/03/1897 |
| Completed: | 04/1897 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 346 |
| Dimensions: | 984grt, 758nrt, 225.4 x 32.0 x 12.3ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (11.5, 18 & 30 x 20ins), 350nhp, 1400ihp |
| Engines by: | Ross & Duncan, Glasgow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 10.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 04/1897 | Eastern Carrying, Insurance, Storing & Warrant Company, Astrakhan |
| 1915 | Obschestvo 'Kamvo', Astrakhan |
| 06/1920 | Kaspmortran, Baku |
| 1922 | Caspian Shipping, Baku |
| 1923 | A/O 'Kaspar', Baku |
| 1930 | A/O 'Sovtorgflot', Baku |
| 1938 | 'Kasptanker', Baku |
| 07/1941 | Soviet Navy |
| 07/1943 | 'Kasptanker', Baku |
| 1953 | Caspian Shipping, Baku |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 20 x 1st and 250 x 3rd Class passengers |
| Towed & rafted via Volga-Baltic Waterway (Mariinsk Canal system) to the Caspian Sea | |
| 1910: Deleted Lloyd's Register - Caspian Sea service only | |
| 07/1941: Requisitioned by the Soviet Navy & used as a floating anti-aircraft battery PZB3 | |
| 10/1943: Released from requisition | |
| Out of service in 1960's, fate unknown |