The Ohrmazd was built for the East & West Steamship Company, and launched at Burntisland Shipyard in April 1967. For more information, please see the main Shipyard page.

The photos below show -

• Top photo: The Ohrmazd at sea.
• Middle photo: The Ohrmazd at King George V Dock, Glasgow, in January 1978. Photo courtesy of Chris Claydon and Paul Strathdee.
• Bottom photo: The Ohrmazd at the end of her life. Photo courtesy of Chris Claydon. Chris worked at Burntisland Shipyard for two summers as a student labourer in 1967 and 1968, and that is where he came upon the Ohrmazd. He was initially a caulker's labourer (bottle boy in local parlance) and, when he worked on the Ohrmazd, a plumber's labourer. He was more recently able to trace Ardeshir Cowasjee, formerly one of the directors of the Ohrmazd's owners, the East & West Steamship Company, which had been nationalised by the Pakistan government in 1974. Mr Cowasjee was kind enough to supply the photo, taken at Gadani beach in west Pakistan in 1994. It shows Mr Cowasjee in the foreground and the Ormahzd in the background. The Ormahz had been beached prior to being broken up at Gadani, which is a major shipbreaking centre.

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