SS Fultala

SS Fultala was a 4,155-ton steamship built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company in 1890 by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland.

SS Fultala

History
Owner:	British-India Steam Navigation Company
Builder:	William Doxford & Sons
Launched:	4 October 1890
Fate:	Scrapped 1923
General characteristics
Type:	steamship
Tonnage:	4,155 tons
Sail plan:	Brig

She was primarily used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. She was designed to carry 12 first class and 1667 deck passengers. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

Destination	Date of Arrival	Number of Passengers	Deaths During Voyage
Fiji	12 May 1901	809	n/a
Fiji	10 April 1905	827	n/a
Fiji	17 August 1905	790	n/a
Fiji	28 April 1906	801	n/a

Fultala was scrapped in Bombay in 1923.

See also

• Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji
• Indian indenture system

References

• Blake, George (1956). B.I. Centenary, 1856-1956. Collins.
• "BI Fleet list 1890-1899". Ships. BI Ship. Retrieved 17 August 2013.

External links

• "British India Steam Navigation Company". The Fleets. The Ships List. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012.
• "Fultala". State Library of Victoria.