SS Vadala

SS Vadala

The S.S. Vadala was a 3,334-ton steamship with a length of 340 feet, breadth of 43.1 feet, and draught of 26 feet. She was built by William Denny and Company, Dumbarton, for the British-India Steam Navigation Company (B.I.S.N.) in 1890. She had quadruple expansion, 315 nhp, steam engines. She was one of the early B.I.S.N. ships to use telemotor steering gear.

She was a passenger cargo vessel, also used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. On 26 March 1895 she arrived in Fiji with 747 indentured Indian labourers on-board. During the trip, the ship rolled violently and the Surgeon-Superintendent complained about his patients being thrown about below deck.

In 1913 she was sold to Inui Gomei Kaisha of Japan and renamed, "KENKON MARU No. 12 ". On 30 May 1928, she sank after collision with the Chinese ship "S.S. HWACHAN" about 140 miles East South East of Tsingtao.

See also

* Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji
* Indian indenture system

External links

* [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bisn.html The Ships List]
* [http://www.biship.com/fleetlists/fleet1890-1899.htm BIShip]

References

*cite book
last = Blake
first = George
title = B.I. Centenary
publisher =Collins
date = 1956
id =


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