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SS Sutlej

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|Ship name=*Sutlej (c.1907–1929)

  • Cape St. Francis (1929–)

|Ship owner=*Nourse Line (c.1907–1929)

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|Ship builder=Charles Connell & Company Limited

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|Ship type=Steamship

|Ship tonnage=3,549 tons

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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, {{convert|425|hp}} 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:

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| Surinam

22 February 1908

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| Trinidad

1 October 1908547

| 4

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| British Guiana

1909n/a

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| British Guiana

1910n/an/a
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| Surinam

27 January 1910n/a

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| Fiji

25 June 1911850n/a
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| Fiji

4 October 1911811n/a
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| Trinidad

14 January 1912432

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| Fiji

27 April 1912857n/a
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| Trinidad

11 December 1912372

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| Fiji

11 April 1913808n/a
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| Trinidad

23 October 1913423

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| Surinam

7 January 1914n/a

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| Trinidad

13 October 1914244

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| British Guiana

1916n/an/a
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| Fiji

11 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.

See also

External links

  • [http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html Updated List of Ships that transported E...], By Richard B.Shiva Ram August 27, 2000, Genealogy.com
  • [http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/nourse2.html Nourse Line]
  • [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm Indian Immigrant Ship List]
  • [http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/guiana.html The Compass]

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Category:Indian indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago

Category:Indian indenture ships to Fiji

Category:Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom