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'''SS ''Indus''''' was a 3,393-ton [[Steamboat|steamship]] launched on 28 April 1904. Delivered to the [[Nourse Line]] in May 1904, she was the shipping company's first steamship. She was built by [[Charles Connell & Company Limited]], [[Glasgow]] and had single screw, triple expansion, 425 nhp engines.

== Voyages ==
Like other Nourse Line ships, she was primarily used for the [[transport]]ation of [[India]]n [[indenture]]d labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:
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! Destination
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| [[Trinidad]] || 13 November 1904
| 634 || 2
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| Trinidad || 15 January 1906 || 694
| 4
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| Trinidad || 13 December 1906 || 740
| 17
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| [[Suriname]] || 3 July 1907 || n/a
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| Suriname || 4 November 1907 || n/a
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| Trinidad || 12 August 1908 || 815
| 8
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| Suriname || 5 December 1908 || n/a
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| Trinidad || 27 July 1909 || 812
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| Trinidad || 12 August 1908 || 815
| 8
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| [[British Guiana]] || 1910 || n/a
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| Trinidad || 8 October 1911 || 402
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| British Guiana || 1912 || n/a || n/a
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| Trinidad || 13 February 1912 || 352
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| [[Fiji]] || 8 June 1912 || 804 || n/a
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| Trinidad || 12 September 1912 || 404
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| Trinidad || 8 January 1913 || 326
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| Suriname || 4 June 1914 || n/a
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== Sinking ==
''Indus'' was captured by {{SMS|Emden|1908|6}} on 10 September 1914, bound from [[Calcutta]] to [[Bombay]] for use as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport. ''Emden'' sank her by [[scuttling]] and gunfire at position {{coord|11|00|N|83|45|E|}} after having taken aboard all her complement. Her crew were later transferred to the [[Germany|German]] [[Collier (ship type)|collier]] ''Markomania''.

== See also ==
* [[Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji]]
* [[Indian indenture system]]

== External links ==
*{{cite web |url=http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html |website=Genealogy |title=Updated List of Ships that transported E |date=27 August 2000}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/nourse2.html |website=Merchant Navy Officers |title=Nourse Line}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm |title=Indian Immigrant Ship List |website=[[Rootsweb]]}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/guiana.html |title=Colony - British Guiana |department=The Compass |website=Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild}}

{{September 1914 shipwrecks}}

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[[Category:History of Suriname]]
[[Category:History of Guyana]]
[[Category:Indian indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago]]
[[Category:Indian indenture ships to Fiji]]
[[Category:World War I shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean]]
[[Category:1904 ships]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in September 1914]]
[[Category:Ships of the Nourse Line]]
[[Category:Passenger ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom]]

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