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

File:SS Sutlej circa 1907.gif 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
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

• Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji
• Indian indenture system

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