SS Virawa

The S.S. Vadala was a 3,334-ton Steam ship. She was built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company in 1890. 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 April 1895 she arrived in Fiji with 677 indentured Indian labourers on-board. She made her second trip to Fiji exactly seven years later, on 26 April 1902 with 718 passengers. Her third trip to Fiji was on 17 July 1905 with 615 passengers and her final trip to Fiji was on 23 March 1907 with 759 passengers. She is also recorded as having transported Indian indentured labourers to Trinidad, arriving on 17 October 1901 with 734 passengers. There were 9 deaths during this voyage.

The Virawa was scrapped at Bombay in 1921.

See also

* Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji
* Indian indenture system

External links

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm Indian Immigrant Ship List]
* [http://www.biship.com/fleetlists/fleet1890-1899.htm BIShip]
* [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bisn.html The Ships List]

References

*cite book
last = Blake
first = George
title = B.I. Centenary
publisher =Collins
date = 1956
id = ISBN 0-905617-62-2