SS Chenab

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

See also

• Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji
• Indian indenture system

External links

• Genealogy.com
• Nourse Line
• Indian Immigrant Ship List
• The Compass