SS Karagola was a cargo steamship of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BI).

She was built in Scotland in 1887, and operated a regular cargo, passenger and mail service in Burma.

BI allocated them to different regular Indian Ocean routes, on which they carried cargo, mail, and deck passengers.

[5] Karagola had a single screw, driven by a three-cylinder triple expansion engine built by Inglis.

[5] On 20 April 1901 Karagola was in Akyab with a cargo of rice and casks of oil when she caught fire.