Built under yard no 266 as a passenger- cargo vessel by Hall Russell & Co. Aberdeen for J.T.Rennie & Sons, Aberdeen.
04 June 1891 launched under the name INDUNA.
Tonnage 699 gross, 429 net, dim. 190.6 x 28.5 x 11.2ft.
One triple expansion steam engine 98 hp., speed 9 knots.
July 1891 completed.
She was built for the coastal service on the South African coast.
After Winston Churchill escaped from the Boer’s prison camp at Pretoria, he traveled on her from Lourenco Marques (Mapoeta) to Durban.
1904 Sold to H.E.Cambell but the same year in December already sold to Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., at Sydney, N.S.W.
She was first put in the service from Sydney to the Lord Howe and Norfolk Island run. Her first voyage for the company was under command of Capt. Bayldon, her first sailing from Sydney was on 31 December 1904.
1905 In the service from Sydney to New Hebrides, Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands and Carolines run until at least to 1916.
April 1920 sold to Patrick Steamship Co., Ltd., Sydney.
June 1925 sold to Railway Commissioners for New South Wales, Sydney and converted in a train ferry
Used as a railway ferry at Grafton, N.S.W.
May 1932 laid-up.
The same year sold and dismantled and the remains flooded and used as a wharf at Grafton.
The remains were cut up for scrap during 1957.
Vanuatu 1988 45v sg497, scott?
Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1891. The Ships of Burns, Philp and Company by Ronald Parson.