SS Chenab

SS Chenab was a 3,930 GRT steamship built for the Nourse Line in 1911 by Cammell Laird and Company Limited of Birkenhead in England.

History
Name:
  • Chenab (1911–31)
  • Ville de Beyrouth (1931–39)
  • Al Rawdah (1939–53)
Owner:
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England
Launched: 1911
Fate: Scrapped 1953
General characteristics
Tonnage: 3,930 GRT
Installed power: 425 NHP
Propulsion:

She had a 425 NHP triple expansion steam engine driving a single screw.

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
Trinidad7 November 19114513
Trinidad7 March 19123505
Suriname8 July 1912n/an/a
British Guiana1912n/an/a
Trinidad8 November 19124105
Trinidad13 March 1913960
Suriname7 July 1913n/an/a
Fiji24 March 1914855n/a
Trinidad12 September 19141790
Fiji16 June 1914717
Fiji1 September 1916717n/a
Trinidad10 December 19166272

Chenab was sold in 1930 to the Khedivial Mail Line of Alexandria, and in 1931 resold to the Cie de Navigation Libano-Syrienne of Beirut and renamed Ville de Beyrouth. By 1936 she owned by the Societe Orientale de Navigation of Beirut, and in 1939 was renamed Al Rawdah.[1]

In 1940 the ship was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport, serving as Al Rawdah under the management of the British India Steam Navigation Company.[2] Al Rawdah was moored in Strangford Lough near Killyleagh in 1940, and was used as a prison ship for Irish republican internees.[3] By early 1945 Al Rawdah was stationed in Holy Loch[4] being used as an accommodation ship attached to the 3rd Submarine Flotilla.[5] She was returned to the Khedivial Mail Line in 1946, and was finally scrapped at Rosyth in 1953.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Khedivial Mail Line". theshipslist.com. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  2. "British-India Fleet list". biship.com. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  3. "Second World War in Northern Ireland". ww2ni.webs.com. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. "Dorset Submariners: HMS Sidon". dorsetsubmariners.org.uk. 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  5. Houterman, Hans (2012). "Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 (H)". unithistories.com. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
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