FATEH AL-KHAIR (GHANJAH)

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For the first shipment of LNG in 2000 the Omani issued this MS which shows a LNG tanker, not a name is given, and search on the internet gives a few names but they are not the same as on the stamp.
The other stamp shows a dhow with the name FATEH AL-KHAIR a museum ship in Oman.


Built in Sur 70 years ago and brought back from its retirement in Yemen, this historic wooden fishing vessel has been meticulously restored and now sits permanently on dry land as part of an open-air museum dedicated to Sur's shipbuilding lineage. It's not possible to climb aboard FATAN Al KHAIR, but it's interesting getting up close to the flanks of the dhow: traditionally, these vessels were made by hand without nails and using handwoven ropes to shore up joins.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/oman/sharq ... 566/361123

She is mostly called in Omania as ”Ghanjah” a type of dhow

Ghanjah A ghanjah or ganja (Arabic: غنجه(, also known as kotiya in India, is a large wooden trading dhow, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel.

The ghanjah dhows had a curved prow with a characteristic trefoil ornament carved on top of the stem-head. They also had an ornately carved stern and quarter galleries. Their average length was 97 ft (30 m) with a 15 m (49 ft) keel-length and an average weight of 215 tons. Usually they had two masts, the main mast having a pronounced inclination towards the prow. They used two to three lateen sails; supplementary sails were often added on the bowsprit and on a topmast atop the main mast. The ghanjah is often difficult to distinguish from the baghlah, a similar type of dhow. Besides the trefoil-shaped carving on top of the stem-head, ghanjahs usually had a more slender shape. Ghanjahs were widely used in the past centuries as merchant ships in the Indian Ocean between the western coast of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula. Many ghanjahs were built at traditional shipyards in Sur, Oman, as well as in Beypore, Kerala, India. Ghanjahs were largely replaced by the newer-designed and easier to maneuver booms in the 20th century.

See also: viewtopic.php?p=15417&hilit=ghanjah#p15417

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanjah
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