The steamship 'Indus' was a single screw, general cargo vessel, built at the Camperdown yard of Gourlay Brothers & Company at Dundee and launched during April 1884. She was of 2,486 gross and 1,616 net register tons being 310.0 ft. long x 37.3 ft. breath x 25.2 ft. deep. She was owned by David Bruce & Company of London. [425]

1886 - Wreck of a Cardiff-Laden Steamer - On Thursday a telegram was received at Dundee announcing that a large steamer, Indus, Captain Leslie, had foundered off Trevose Head, on the west coast of Cornwall. The crew were all saved. The Indus, which was owned by Messrs David Bruce and Co., left Cardiff yesterday with coals for Tenerife. She was built in Dundee in 1884, at a cost of upwards of £ 40,000. Her register was 2,485 tons gross, the engines being 240 horse-power. The vessel and cargo were fully insured.

A Lloyd's telegram from Port Isaac, Cornwall, this morning, states that the steamer Indus, which left Penarth yesterday for Tenerife, foundered six miles south-west of Trevose about 5.30 this morning. The crew, thirty-one in number, have landed at Port Isaac. - The Cardiff Times [019] [361] 16th October 1886.