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:
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.
SSSutlej 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...
Rigveda (10.75) mentions the Sarasvati between the Yamuna in the east and the Sutlej in the west, while RV 7.95.1-2, describes the Sarasvati as flowing to the...
Trinidad and Tobago as an indentured laborer in 1912 upon the vessel SSSutlej, and later married Sunbass Tiwari (not related). This marriage according...
number following the name of the ship denotes the voyage number (to Fiji). "SS" in front of the name of the ship denotes that it was a steam ship. From 1905...
Nourse. Indus was completed in 1904, Ganges in 1906, Mutlah in 1907 and Sutlej in 1908. In 1911 Cammell, Laird & Co of Birkenhead on the River Mersey built...
and Ravi rivers, including the area on the north of Sutlej, after the confluence of Beas and Sutlej at Harike in Tarn Taran district, extending up to the...
Tribunal for the murders of the crews of British Chivalry, and those of Sutlej on 24 February 1944, and Ascot on 29 February 1944. He was found guilty...
extract money from Gulab Singh, reputed to be the richest Raja north of the Sutlej River as he had taken most of the Lahore treasury. However, Gulab Singh...
and the stern. The escort vessels, HMAS Wollongong, HMS Danae and HMIS Sutlej, stood by while HMAS Yarra's captain, Wilfred Harrington, carefully manoeuvered...
area of operations of each Dal, or army, was Hari ke Pattan, where the Sutlej river and Beas River meet; the Taruna Dal would control the area east of...
unwed Hindu Marathi girls and women. Whilst the Afghans were crossing the Sutlej River, suddenly Sikh forces fell upon them and rescued the captured Marathi...
groups operating in the northern approaches to the British Isles. HMIS Sutlej and HMIS Jumna, each armed with six-high angle 4" guns, were present during...
whose descendants, the bhais of Kaithal, ranked among the most powerful Cis-Sutlej states. The Sikh Chieftains of Kaithal, ruled from 1767 until its fall in...
overall Naval Forces Commander. Two sloops of the Royal Indian Navy – HMIS Sutlej and HMIS Jumna – also participated. At the time of Operation Husky, the...
significantly during the Second World War.[citation needed] The sloops HMIS Sutlej and HMIS Jumna, of the Black Swan class, took part in Operation Husky, the...
October 1948. Ha-205 – Scuttled by gunfire from HMAS Quiberon and HMIS Sutlej in the Seto Inland Sea on 9 May 1946 as part of Operation Bottom. Ha-206...
itself states on verse no.861 that it was "completed on the bank of the Sutlej River on the base of Naina Devi". The text claims it was written for the...
pottery style that has been linked to a group of people who settled in Sutlej, Ghagger, and the Upper Ganga/Yamuna Valleys, loosely classified with the...
the west, to Kashmir in the north, to Sindh in the south, running along Sutlej river to Himachal in the east. After the death of Ranjit Singh, the empire...
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