Swami Vivekanand sailed on this ship - The S.S Empress of India for his famous 11th September Chicago speech.
It continued to ply the far East - Canada route till 1914.

That year, it was purchased by the Maharaja of Gwalior and converted into a hospital ship for the war.

It was renamed S.S Loyalty.
The refitting and renaming was done by Jan 1915.

My own great grandfather was probably associated with this Hospital ship Loyalty. He was Civil Surgeon Gwalior and also an Officer in the Medical Corps (3rd Gwalior Imperial Service Infantry)
It was then purchased by Walchand Hirachand for 25 lakhs and Scindia Steam Navigation was born.

The ship was scrapped in 1923

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