SS Sutlej

Steamship

SS Sutlej

SS Sutlej

History
Name|

* Sutlej (c.1907–1929)
* Cape St. Francis (1929–)

Owner|

* Nourse Line (c.1907–1929)
* Sun Shipping Company (1929–)

Builder| Charles Connell & Company Limited
Launched| c.1907
General characteristics
Type| Steamship
Tonnage| 3,549 tons
Installed power| Triple expansion steam engine 425 hp (317 kW)
Propulsion| Single screw

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.

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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|
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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.

## See also

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* Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji
* Indian indenture system

## External links

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* 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