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SS Ganges (1906)

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606:, Devara Suramma (Emigration Pass No. 52043) and Gompa Appalasamy (Emigration Pass No. 51617), arrived on this ship from India to Fiji in 1913. Abdul Wahid who ran as a Mayoral Candidate in Tracy, USA. His grandfather Ali Mohammed f/n Mehardad was one of the indentured labor who came at the age of 20. 595:
The parents of Fiji's first Chief Justice Sir Moti Tikaram (KBE), Thakur Tikaram (born 1877) and his wife Singaribai Tikaram (born 1894) arrived in Fiji on July 10, 1912 on the SS Ganges (Emigration Pass No. 50079).
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transport. For periods of 1916 and 1917 she was requisitioned to transport various bulk cargoes including
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of Glasgow and launched on 9 March 1906. She made seven trips carrying Indian indentured labourers from
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Having been in operation during the last years of the Indian indenture system,
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in 1930 and served for a further four years before being sold for breaking to
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was the last ship to carry Indian indentured labourers to Trinidad and to
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who sold her on the following year to Sea Products of London. She became
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was sold out of the fleet in 1928 to F. B. Saunders of
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Index

Ganges (disambiguation)
Nourse Line
GRT
NRT
DWT
steamship
Nourse Line
Charles Connell and Company
Calcutta
Madras
Fiji
Trinidad and Tobago
Surinam
British Guiana
Nourse Line
Ganges
Ganges
Norway
British Guiana
Georgetown
Royal Navy
collier
Indian Expeditionary Force
coal
sugar
wheat
Liner Requisition Scheme
London
Thos. W. Ward
Fiji Indian

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