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| Ship name = '''''Moy'''''
| Ship owner = [[Nourse Line]]
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| Ship class = Iron-hulled [[sailing ship]]
| Ship tons burthen = 1,697 tons
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|}The '''''Moy''''' was a 1,697 ton, [[iron]] [[sailing ship]] with a [[length]] of {{convert|257.6|ft|m}}, breadth of {{convert|38.3|ft|m}} and depth of {{convert|23.2|ft|m}}. She was built by Russel & Company for the [[Nourse Line]], named after the [[River Moy]] in northwest of [[Ireland]] and launched in May 1885. She was primarily used for the transportation of [[India]]n [[indenture]] labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:
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! Destination || Date of Arrival || Number of Passengers || Deaths During Voyage
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| [[Fiji]] || 3 May 1889 || 677 || n/a
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| Fiji || 14 April 1893 || 467 || n/a
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| [[Trinidad]] || 11 December 1893 || 627 || n/a
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| Trinidad || 3 December 1894 || 636 || 25
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| Trinidad || 16 January 1901 || 611 || 3
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| Fiji || 1 June 1898 || 568 || n/a
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|British Guiana || 20 August 1902 || n/a || n/a
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| [[British Guiana]] || March 1904 || 523 || 46
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In 1888, the '''Moy''' repatriated 327 former indentured labourers from [[Saint Lucia|St Lucia]] back to [[India]].

During her last voyage, to British Guiana, there was an incredibly high death rate with 46 deaths, and of the remainder 88 had to be sent to hospital in [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]]. The [[Surgeon Superintendent]]'s gratuity was withheld for this incident and the captain and [[Third mate|third officer]] also lost part of their pay. In February 1905, on the way back to [[Liverpool]] from British Guiana she was reported as missing.

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

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

== External links ==
*[http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/brodie/0/0/0/doc/bs000514.shtml Picture of Moy]
*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm Indian Immigrant Ship List]
*[http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html Genealogy.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111002234018/http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/nourse.htm The Ships List]

{{1905 shipwrecks}}

[[Category:History of Guyana]]
[[Category:Indian indenture ships to Fiji]]
[[Category:Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Individual sailing vessels]]
[[Category:1885 ships]]
[[Category:Missing ships]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1905]]
[[Category:Ships lost with all hands]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean]]

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