INDIAN / ARMENIAN

BUILT IN 1895 BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST FOR THE LEYLAND LINE AS THE 'INDIAN' -  SHE WAS THE SISTER SHIP TO VICTORIAN.SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 8,825 TONS AND REGISTERED IN LIVERPOOL .

 IN 1899 SHE WAS USED AS A BOER WAR TRANSPORT VESSEL THE SAME AS HER SISTER SHIP VICTORIAN.

IN 1903 SHE WAS PLACED UNDER WHITE STAR LINE MANAGEMENT.

 IN 1914 SHE WAS USED AS A HORSE TRANSPORT VESSEL TO FRANCE. ON 28TH JUNE  1915 SHE WAS OFF TREVOSE HEAD, CORNWALL WHEN SHE WAS STOPPED BY THE GERMAN SUBMARINE U.24, WHO ORDERED HER CREW TO ABANDON HER, AND THEN SANK HER WITH A TORPEDO. TWENTY NINE  CREW MEMBERS LOST THEIR LIVES STILL LOST THEIR LIVES, MAINLY AMERICANS

 SHE WAS CARRYING 1,400  MULES AT THE TIME FOR THE WAR EFFORT IN FRANCE . SHE AND SANK IN EIGHTY METRES OF WATER.THE SECOND PICTURE SHOWS THE HORSE STALLS ON ARMENIAN.