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|Ship country = [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
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|Ship name = ''Jumna''
|Ship namesake = [[Yamuna|Jamuna]]
|Ship owner = [[File:Nourse Line house flag.svg|18px]] [[Nourse Line]]
|Ship operator = *1867: James Nourse
*1897: Charles Hampton
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|Ship identification = *UK [[official number]] 56838
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|Ship country = [[Norway]]
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|Ship owner = NP Hoyer
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|Ship type = iron-hulled sailing ship
|Ship tonnage = {{GRT|1048}}
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'''Jumna''' was a {{GRT|1048}} iron-hulled [[full-rigged ship]] that was built in [[England]] in 1867 and went missing in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in 1899. For most of her career she was in the fleet of [[Nourse Line|James Nourse]].

''Jumna'' was named after the [[Yamuna|Jamuna]] river, a tributary of the [[Ganges]]. This was the first of three ships in the Nourse Line fleet to be called ''Jumna''. The second {{SS|Jumna||2}} was a [[steamship]] that was built in 1929 and sunk by a [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[cruiser]] in 1940.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=17110&vessel=JUMNA |title=Jumna (1929) |work=Scottish Built Ships |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref> The third was a [[motor ship]] that was built in 1962, renamed in 1972 and scrapped in 1985.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=4994&vessel=JUMNA |title=Jumna (1962) |work=Scottish Built Ships |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref>

==Building and identification==
[[William Pile (shipbuilder)|William Pile]] of [[Sunderland]] built ''Jumna'', launching her on 17 August 1867. She was {{cvt|208.6|ft}} long, her beam was {{cvt|34.1|ft}} and her depth was {{cvt|20.1|ft}}.<ref name=SBS>{{cite web |url= http://www.sunderlandships.com/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=157117&vessel=JUMNA |title=Jumna (1867) |work=Wear Built Ships |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref>

''Jumna''{{'}}s UK [[official number]] was 56838 and she was [[Ship registration|registered]] in [[Port of London|London]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen |year=1868 |title=Mercantile Navy List |page=213 |url= https://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/viewimages?name=Jumna&year=1868&steamsail=Sail&submit=Enter |publisher=[[Board of Trade]] |via=Crew List Index Project |access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref> By 1884 her [[code letters]] were HTNS.<ref>{{cite book |author=Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen |year=1884 |title=Mercantile Navy List |page=385 |url= https://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/viewimages?&name=Jumna&steamsail=Sail&submit=Enter&year=1884 |publisher=[[Board of Trade]] |via=Crew List Index Project |access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref>

==Voyages==
''Jumna'' carried [[Indentured servitude|indentured labourers]] from [[British Raj|India]] to other [[British Empire]] territories, which was a Nourse Line speciality.

Details of some of these voyages are as follows:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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! Destination || Date of Arrival || Number of Passengers || Deaths During Voyage
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| [[Trinidad]] || 10 February 1874 || 430 || 17
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| Trinidad || 28 February 1880 || 435 || 3
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| Trinidad || 10 January 1889 || 456 || 6
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| [[Fiji]] || 27 June 1891 || 447 || n/a
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| Fiji || 23 May 1893 || 310 || n/a
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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 ''Jumna'' transported 487 indentured labourers from the ''Volga'' (which had sunk) to [[Jamaica]]. In 1883 she repatriated 95 labourers back to India from [[Saint Lucia]] and another 137 in August 1892.

==Fate==
In 1898 NP Hoyer bought ''Jumna'' and registered her in [[Skien]] in [[Norway]]. On 21 February 1899 she left [[Greenock]] in Scotland laden with coal for [[Port of Montevideo|Montevideo]] in [[Uruguay]]. She was last seen passing [[Rathlin Island]] in the [[North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland)|North Channel]]. She was never seen again, and in due course was posted missing.<ref name=SBS/>

==Notable passengers==
* [[Totaram Sanadhya]] arrived in Fiji on 23 May 1893

==See also==
*[[Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji]]
*[[Indian indenture system]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book
|last= Lubbock
|first= Basil
|author-link= Basil Lubbock
|year= 1955
|title= Coolie Ships and Oil Sailors
|place= Glasgow
|publisher= Brown, Son & Ferguson
|isbn= 0-85174-111-8
}}

==External links==
*{{cite web |url= http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm |title=Indian Immigrant Ship List |work=TriniGenWeb |date=4 April 2008}}
*{{cite web |url= http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html |title=Indians in the Caribbean |publisher=Genealogy.com |date=27 August 2000}}
*{{cite web |url= http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/nourse.shtml |last1=Swiggum |first1=Susan |last2=Kohli |first2=Marjorie |title=Nourse Line |work=TheShipsList |date=3 May 2006}}

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[[Category:1867 ships]]
[[Category:Indian indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago]]
[[Category:Indian indenture ships to Fiji]]
[[Category:Individual sailing vessels]]
[[Category:Sailing ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Ships lost with all hands]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean]]
[[Category:Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom]]

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