Launched c.1907 Propulsion Single screw | Type Steamship Tonnage 3.22 million kg | |
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Name Sutlej (c.1907–1929)
Cape St. Francis (1929–) Owner Nourse Line (c.1907–1929)
Sun Shipping Company (1929–) Installed power Triple expansion steam engine 425 hp (317 kW) Builder Charles Connell and Company | ||
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.
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:
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.
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