Bayard (ship)
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | T. Vernon and Son, Liverpool |
| Launched: | 1864 |
| Fate: | ran aground 6 June 1911 |
| General characteristics | |
| Length: | 67 metres (220 ft) |
| Draft: | 1,028 tons |
The Bayard was a three masted, 67 metre long, 1,028 ton, sailing ship built by T. Vernon and Son, Liverpool for the Hall Line in 1864. In 1868 she was transferred to Sun Shipping Company and in 1881 sold to Foley and Company. [1]
On 20 August 1883 she arrived in Suva, Fiji carrying 494 Indian indentured labourers from Calcutta. She had previously carried indentured labourers to the West Indies.[2]
In 6 May 1885, Bayard hit an iceberg, 55 miles South of Cape Race while on a voyage from Marseilles to St. Pierre. The ship lost its stern, bowsprit, jib boom, foremast, topgallantmast and yard, but reached its destination on 23 May, leaking badly.[3]
She was later used as a coaling ship for the whaling station in South Georgia. Bayard lost its mooring at the coaling pier on the northern side of the island during a severe gale on 6 June 1911 and ran aground on the rocks on the southern side of the island, where she rests there today, as a breeding site for blue-eyed shags.[4]
