SS Fazilka was a British India Steam Navigation Company (BI) steamship.

In 1890 William Doxford & Sons at Pallion in Sunderland built a pair of sister ships for BI.

On a voyage in October 1897 she ran short of coal, and her crew had to burn mostof her wooden fittings to reach port.

On 6 February, hile she was still 430 nautical miles (800 km) from land, her propeller shaft broke in two places, rupturing her stern tube.

Her crew shifted her ballast forward, which lowered her bow in the water and raised her propeller clear of the surface.

[1] On 12 February one of her engineers, Lachlan Brown, directed the jury rigging of a set of sails on both of her masts.

The tow line broke, and Fazilka's Master, Captain Goss, declined further help, but accepted additional victuals.

[1] Eventually Brown dismantled the high-pressure cylinder of Fazilka's main engine in order to cannibalise its brass bearing on the crankpin.

[citation needed] From 1901 to 1907 Fazilka made six voyages taking Indian indentured labourers to Fiji, as shown in the table below.

[citation needed] In July 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian auxiliary cruisers Kuban stopped and searched her in the Red Sea.

[8] On 31 October 1919 Fazilka was en route from Penang to Calcutta when she grounded in poor weather on the east coast of Great Nicobar Island.