Titanic biography in gujarati wedding

More than two decades before the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, an Indian-owned passenger ship, the SS Vaitarna, sank off the coast of Gujarat.

Not many have heard of this tragedy, the records of which are usually hard to come by. But the available information is somewhat sufficient to piece together a narrative.

The SS Vaitarna was known locally as Vijli, or Haji Cassum ni Vijli, after Cassum Ibrahim Agboatwala aka Haji Cassum, who was the captain of the ship at the time of the incident.

The name Vaitarna may have come from the river in Bombay Presidency; the local name, Vijli (electricity), derived from the ship being lit up with electric bulbs. This was done long before external lighting was made mandatory for safe navigation at sea.

The SS Vaitarna shuttled