City - The Scientific Center/ kuwait State - KUWAIT Country - Kuwait
About
Fateh-El-Khair is a deep sea sailing ship of the "boom saffar" type. This ship was designed and built in Kuwait in 1938 by the shipbuilder Ali Abdul Rassol for the merchant Mohamed Al-Ghanim and his brother Thunayan Al-Ghanim. The building of the ship took 18 carpenters working 60 days round the clock and cost approximately 17,000 rupees (390 US Dollar). She is made of Indian timber, weighs 100 tons empty and can sail up to 13 knots. Its main route was from India to Africa as a cargo ship and could carry a total of approximately 226 tons. This ship carried dates from Kuwait and would trade them for tea in India and wood from Africa. The journey took seven months and went to several exotic ports. Merchants on this ship traded dates in Manglore, India for tiles and in Zanzibar the ship would take on mangrove poles to use in the building of Arabian houses
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