The ''Fateh Al-Khayr (

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

: فاتح الخير)'' is a 226-ton

dhow Dhow (; ) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region. Typically sporting long thin hulls, dhows are trading vessels ...

preserved as a

museum ship A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, mostly for the small numb ...

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at Kuwait Scientific Center. Built in 1938 in Kuwait by Ali Abdul Rassol for Mohamed Al-Ghanim and Thunayan Al-Ghanim, it is the only surviving Kuwaiti-built sailing ship of the country's pre-oil era. Though the ''Fateh Al-Khayr'' shares its name with a similar museum ship in

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, the Omani ship is a type of dhow called a

Ghanjah A ghanjah or ganja (), also known as kotiya in India, is a large wooden trading dhow, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel. Description The ghanjah dhows had a curved prow with a characteristic trefoil ornament carved on top of the stem-head. The ...

, and the Kuwaiti ship is a variant called a boum. The photo of this article shows the Ghanjah in Oman. After being used for long-distance voyages to Africa, the Kuwaiti ship was sold in 1952 to an Iranian captain who used it for shipping within the

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. In 1994, it was discovered by Kuwaiti maritime historian Yacoub al-Hijji, who organized its purchase and restoration. At the time, it was thought that the only surviving Kuwaiti-built boum had been destroyed during the

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. After two years of work, the ''Fateh Al-Khayr'' was unveiled to the public and installed at the museum in Kuwait.

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