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| Ship name = '''''Poonah'''''
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The ''Poonah'', named after the city of [[Poonah]] in western [[India]], was a three masted sailing ship of 1199 tons, owned by Tyser & Haviside and was built in 1867 by [[William Pile (shipbuilder)|William Pile]] at [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]].<ref>{{ cite news | url = http://www.red-duster.co.uk/tyser.htm | title = G. D. TYSER & CO | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060614224335/http://www.red-duster.co.uk/TYSER.htm | archivedate = 14 June 2006 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

== Trips to West Indies ==
She was used as an indenture ship in the [[West Indies]], carrying 306 passengers to [[St. Lucia]] in 1885 <ref>{{ cite news | url = http://immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/stlucia.html| title = THE COMPASS: Colony - St. Lucia}}</ref> and 387 passengers to Trinidad on 22 February 1869, of whom 5 died.<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm | title = Indian Immigrant Ship List}}</ref>

== Trips to Fiji ==
The '''Poonah''' made two trips from [[India]] to [[Fiji]]. Its first arrival at [[Suva]] was on 17 September 1882 with 476 passengers on board, and the second was on 18 June 1883, with 515 passengers. During the first trip, the [[Lascar]] crew refused to go on deck during a severe storm and the ship was almost lost, and during the second trip there was an outbreak of [[cholera]] and smallpox. There were 26 deaths during the trip from cholera and another death of one of the passengers in Fiji.<ref>Taranaki Herald, 24 July 1883, Cholera and Smallpox at Suva, http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TH18830724.2.15</ref>

== Trips to South Africa ==
The '''Poonah''' made trips from India to South Africa carrying indentured labourers who ended up working on the sugar cane plantations, in the hotels and as merchants in Durban, Tongaat, Stanger and in many other parts of South Africa. The '''Poonah''' left [[Calcutta]] in early 1878 with a full complement of indentured Indian labourers and crew on board and she docked in [[Durban]] harbour in July 1878.

== Change of ownership ==
She was later sold and renamed ''Lief. Drammen'' <ref>[http://sinpic.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=bs001192&Search_Code=FT*&CNT=15 State Library of Victoria]</ref>

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

==References==

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==External links==
* [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/brodie/0/0/1/doc/bs001192.shtml Picture of Poonah (Lief. Drammen)]

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