SS Wardha was a 3,917-ton steamship built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company in 1887 by Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow. She was a passenger cargo vessel of length 350 feet (110 m) and breadth of 47 feet (14 m). She was used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows: In 1912, Wardha was sold to F. Bruzzo of Italy.