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BAHRAIN CRAFT REGISTRATIONS.
Small Motor
Wooden Barges, Motor Launches Sailing Total
Steel Launches and Craft
S/Tugs
Year, 1359
Registered Craft 1 15 8 102 930 1,056
Newly built 1 1 6 8
Newly registered 1 11 12
Former fishing craft 5 5
Totals 3 15 8 103 952 1,081
Less, in 1360
Sold and removed 5 40 45
Broken up 10 10
Lost at sea 1 3 4
Burnt in port 1 1
Stolen from port.. 1 1
Removed from port 1 1 1 3
Built for sale 1 1
Totals . 1 7 57 65
Actual number of craft regis
tered at end of 1360 .. 3 14 8 96 895 1,016
Totals 3 15 8 103 952 1,081
It will be noticed that the decrease in registrations is mainly in sailing craft; and the sales have
by no means been replaced by local construction, another result of poor pearling seasons. The sail­
making industry is also labouring under difficulty, as the needed twist fibre can be obtained from
India only under special permit.
The Port of Bahrain: The amenities of the port remain unchanged. During the winter of
1359-60 the T-piece at the head of the Pier was again badly battered. Extensive repairs have been
made which involved the re-construction of the pier frontage, and certain flights of steps were remade
so as to be usable. Certain other flights of steps broken by wear and tear have also been reconstructed.
In addition the old beacon at the Bab-al-Oqair, where there is a dangerous eddy, which was
re-built in 1939, had been battered to pieces, and had to be re-built. This was risky and difficult
work, and it remains to be seen if the newly designed construction will resist the battering of stormy
seas.
During the year 1360 two hundred and fifty-one foreign steamers visited this port (excluding
visits from H. M/s Warships and the L.T. ' Nearchus' on buoy-lighting duty), as compared with
three hundred and twenty in 1359, and four hundred and six in 1358.
VISITS OF FOREIGN STEAMERS.
Nationality. Year, 1359. Year, 1360.
BRITISH:
B. I. S. N. Coy., Ltd. 137 to- 48 M.
British Chartered 35 to­
Strick-Ellerman 17 S. il S.
Asiatic S. N. Coy., Ltd. .. 5 M.
British Tanker Coy., Ltd. 17 M. 18 M.
JAPANESE: 176 112
Mitsui Line .. 4 M. 2 M.
Yamashita Line 10 M. 2 M.