SS Ganges was a 3,475-ton steamship, built for the Nourse Line by Charles Connell and Company of Glasgow and launched on 9 March 1906.
Having been in operation during the last years of the Indian indenture system, Ganges was the last ship to carry Indian indentured labourers to Trinidad and to British Guiana, docking in Georgetown on 18 April 1917.
Between 7 and 31 August 1914 Ganges was requisitioned for use as a Royal Navy collier; and from September of the same year to the following January became an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
For periods of 1916 and 1917 she was requisitioned to transport various bulk cargoes including coal, sugar and wheat.
Fiji Indian businessman Sir Sathi Narain, Devara Suramma (Emigration Pass No.