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Name: SAMARKAND
Type: Tanker
Launched: 31/03/1897
Completed: 1897
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 658
Dimensions: 976grt, 738nrt, 218.0 x 32.0 x 16.0ft
Engines: 2 x C2cyl (20 & 36 x 24ins), 106nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1897 Alesger Dadashev, Astrakhan
1904 Alesger & Aleker Dadashev, Astrakhan / Baku
1920 Government of Soviet Russia. Kaspmortran, Baku
1922 Caspian Shipping Co, Baku
1923 A/O 'Kaspar', Baku
1930 A/O Sovtorgflot, Baku
1934 Caspian Shipping Co, Baku
1938 Parokhodstvo 'Kasptanker', Baku
No later history known
Comments: 1910: Deleted from Lloyd's Register - Caspian sea service only
1950's : Withdrawn from service