SS Fatima was the first ship ever registered in Karachi, Pakistan in 1948.

[1] It was cargo vessel belonging to East & West Steamship Company.

The ship was named after Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah, the First Lady of Pakistan.

[2] She was then a 'Basset' class naval trawler of the Royal Indian Navy under the name SHILLONG, pennant number T.250, deployed in anti-submarine and minesweeping duties.

On 11 August 1948, she was registered at the newly established Port of Registry at Karachi.