SS Indus explained

A number of steamships have been named Indus, including:-

• , in service with Nourse Line 1866–73
• , of, built by CS Swan&Co., Wallsend, for the Mercantile Steam Ship Company. Stranded and wrecked January 1883.
• , of, was launched for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She sank in 1885.
• , the first steamship built for the Nourse Line, in service until captured and sunk in 1914
• , in service with Nourse Line 1940–42, sunk by German raider Thor
• , launched as Sasbeck, served with C H Abrahamsen, Stockholm as Indus from 1950–68
• , in service with Nourse Line 1954–69, when sold to Panama

For merchant vessels of the Age of Sail see: