Jumna (ship)

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The Jumna, named after a tributary of the Ganges in northern India, was a 1,048 ton, iron sailing ship built for the Nourse Line, William Pile of Sunderland in 1867. She was 208.6 feet (63.6 m) long, 34.1 feet (10.4 m) wide and 20.1 feet (6.1 m) deep. The ship was used in the transport of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies which was a speciality of the Nourse Line. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

DestinationDate of ArrivalNumber of PassengersDeaths During Voyage
Trinidad10 February 1874 43017
Trinidad28 February 1880 4353
Trinidad10 January 1889 4566
Fiji27 June 1891 447n/a
Fiji23 May 1893310n/a

The 310 labourers she carried to Fiji in 1893 was the smallest number of passengers carried by any ship transporting Indian indentured labourers to Fiji.

On 22 December 1893, the Jumna transported 487 indentured labourers from the Volga (which had sunk) to Jamaica. In 1883 she repatriated 95 labourers back to India from St Lucia and another 137 in August 1892.

In 1898 Jumna was sold to Norwegian owners.

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Bibliography

  • Lubbock, Basil (1981). Coolie ships and oil sailors. Brown, Son & Ferguson. ISBN 0-85174-111-8. 

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