SS Chenab
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The S.S. Chenab was a 3,393-ton steamship built for the Nourse Line in 1911 by Cammell Laird & Company Limited, Birkenhead. She had single screw, triple expansion, 425 nhp 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 |
---|---|---|---|
Trinidad | 7 November 1911 | 451 | 3 |
Trinidad | 7 March 1912 | 350 | 5 |
Suriname | 8 July 1912 | n/a | n/a |
British Guiana | 1912 | n/a | n/a |
Trinidad | 8 November 1912 | 410 | 5 |
Trinidad | 13 March 1913 | 96 | 0 |
Suriname | 7 July 1913 | n/a | n/a |
Fiji | 24 March 1914 | 855 | n/a |
Trinidad | 12 September 1914 | 179 | 0 |
Fiji | 16 June 1914 | 717 | n/a |
Fiji | 1 September 1916 | 717 | n/a |
Trinidad | 10 December 1916 | 627 | 2 |