SS Sutlej
SS Sutlej was a 3,549 ton steamship built for the Nourse Line in about 1907 by Charles Connell & Company Limited, Glasgow. She had single screw, triple expansion, 425 horsepower (317 kW) engines.
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Builder: | Charles Connell & Company Limited |
Launched: | c.1907 |
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Type: | Steamship |
Tonnage: | 3,549 tons |
Installed power: | Triple expansion steam engine 425 hp (317 kW) |
Propulsion: | Single screw |
Like other Nourse Line ships, she was primarily used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:
Destination | Date of Arrival | Number of Passengers | Deaths During Voyage |
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Surinam | 22 February 1908 | n/a | n/a |
Trinidad | 1 October 1908 | 547 | 4 |
British Guiana | 1909 | n/a | n/a |
British Guiana | 1910 | n/a | n/a |
Surinam | 27 January 1910 | n/a | n/a |
Fiji | 25 June 1911 | 850 | n/a |
Fiji | 4 October 1911 | 811 | n/a |
Trinidad | 14 January 1912 | 432 | 3 |
Fiji | 27 April 1912 | 857 | n/a |
Trinidad | 11 December 1912 | 372 | 5 |
Fiji | 11 April 1913 | 808 | n/a |
Trinidad | 23 October 1913 | 423 | 1 |
Surinam | 7 January 1914 | n/a | n/a |
Trinidad | 13 October 1914 | 244 | 1 |
British Guiana | 1916 | n/a | n/a |
Fiji | 11 November 1916 | 888 | n/a |
Sutlej was the last ship to transport Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. In 1929, she was sold to Sun Shipping Company, London renamed Cape St. Francis.
External links
- Updated List of Ships that transported E..., By Richard B.Shiva Ram August 27, 2000, Genealogy.com
- Nourse Line
- Indian Immigrant Ship List
- The Compass
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