The following was reported in the South Wales Echo on the 16th of March, 1897: “The Secretary of State for War on Monday promulgated a special army order, making known to the army the substance of a report received from the general officer commanding at the Mauritius recording the remarkable courage and exemplary discipline displayed by the troops under most trying circumstances on board the Royal Indian Marine Troopship Warren Hastings when that ship, steaming full speed, struck the rocks…”   

Ship Name: Warren Hastings 

Year Built: 1893

Tonnage: 4,500

Ship Type: Steel-Hulled Twin-Screw Steam Ship 

Nationality: British 

Year Wrecked: 1897

Location Wrecked: Near Saint Phillipe Reunion Island 

Reason For Wreck: Navigational Error

Lives Lost: 2 

Sources: 

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3270241/3270242/10/Warren%20Hastings%20Shipwreck

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3268976/3268978/16/Warren%20Hastings%20Shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259627261?searchTerm=warren%20hastings%20shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/258488813

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/216690856?searchTerm=warren%20hastings%20shipwreck

https://newspaperarchive.com/roma-western-star-and-roma-advertiser-mar-27-1897-p-4/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-warren-hastings-shipwreck/45961355/

https://books.google.com/books?id=eXIEXptEGeUC&pg=PA36&dq=Barrow+1893+Warren+hastings+ship&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA5IORpuOEAxUthYkEHT0KBiAQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=Barrow%201893%20Warren%20hastings%20ship&f=false

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4604731/4604735/105/Warren%20Hastings%20Shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/216691781?searchTerm=warren%20hastings%20shipwreck

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4604526/4604528/13/Warren%20Hastings%20Shipwreck

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3018915/3018918/39/Warren%20Hastings%20Shipwreck

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3370713/3370720/132/Warren%20Hastings%20Shipwreck