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| name = '''''Main'''''
| owner = [[Nourse Line]]
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| launched = August 1884
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| type = Iron-hulled sailing ship
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The '''Main''' was a 1691-ton, [[iron]] [[sailing ship]] built by [[Russel & Company]] for the [[Nourse Line]] and launched in August 1884. The ship is recorded as having completed the journey from [[Sharpness, Gloucestershire|Sharpness]] to [[Calcutta]] on 20 July 1900 in 100 days but was mainly used to [[transport]] [[India]]n [[indenture]]d labourers to the British colonies. Details of some of these are shown below:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin:0.2em auto"
! Destination || Date of Arrival || Number of Passengers || Deaths During Voyage
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| Fiji || 30 April 1885 || 735 || n/a
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| Trinidad || 31 October 1891 || 631 || 24
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| Trinidad || 1 November 1894 || 643 || 21
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| Trinidad || 1 November 1895 || 651 || 3
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| Trinidad || 4 November 1896 || 650 || 0
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| Trinidad || 21 January 1900 || 627 || 4
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| Trinidad || 2 December 1903 || 602 || 2
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| Surinam || 15 October 1906 || n/a || n/a
|}

The '''Main''' was sold to [[Norway|Norwegian]] owners in 1910-11 and renamed ''Vansa''. She was dismasted on 8 December 1917 and sank 225nm ENE Cape Hatteras on 16 December 1917.

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

== External links ==
*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm Indian Immigrant Ship List]
*[http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/suriname.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild]

== References ==
*{{cite book
| last = Lubbock
| first = Basil
| authorlink = Basil Lubbock
| title = Coolie ships and oil sailors
| publisher = Brown, Son & Ferguson
| date = 1981
| isbn = 0-85174-111-8
}}

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[[Category:Indian indenture ships to Fiji]]
[[Category:Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Individual sailing vessels]]
[[Category:1884 ships]]

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