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.

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

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
Surinam22 February 1908 n/an/a
Trinidad1 October 1908547 4
British Guiana1909n/a n/a
British Guiana1910n/an/a
Surinam27 January 1910n/a n/a
Fiji25 June 1911850n/a
Fiji4 October 1911811n/a
Trinidad14 January 1912432 3
Fiji27 April 1912857n/a
Trinidad11 December 1912372 5
Fiji11 April 1913808n/a
Trinidad23 October 1913423 1
Surinam7 January 1914n/a n/a
Trinidad13 October 1914244 1
British Guiana1916n/an/a
Fiji11 November 1916888n/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.

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