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, 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:
DestinationDate of ArrivalNumber of PassengersDeaths During Voyage
Surinam22 February 1908n/an/a
Trinidad1 October 19085474
British Guiana1909n/an/a
British Guiana1910n/an/a
Surinam27 January 1910n/an/a
Fiji25 June 1911850n/a
Fiji4 October 1911811n/a
Trinidad14 January 19124323
Fiji27 April 1912857n/a
Trinidad11 December 19123725
Fiji11 April 1913808n/a
Trinidad23 October 19134231
Surinam7 January 1914n/an/a
Trinidad13 October 19142441
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.