SS Wardha was a merchant steamship that was built in Scotland in the 1880s and scrapped in Italy in 1923.

In 1884 Alexander Stephen and Sons of Linthouse, Glasgow, laid down a pair of cargo ships for Hume, Smith and Company of Liverpool.

Their beam was relatively broad in proportion to their length, as they were designed to carry baled cotton from New Orleans to Liverpool.

She had a single screw, driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion engine that was rated at 311 NHP[2] and gave her a speed of 11 knots (20 km/h).

A gale off East London damaged the ship, and killed nearly 100 of the cavalry horses aboard.

[1] After the Boer War, Wardha made three voyages taking Indian indentured labourers abroad, as shown in the table below.

[11] E Ghisler bought Wardha in February 1913, and sold her in 1917 to A Corrado fu GB.