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| Ship country = United Kingdom
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| Ship owner = [[Nourse Line]]
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| Ship country = Canada
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| Ship owner = R.C. Williams of [[New Brunswick]], 1907; W.H. Chandler, Rhine Shipping Company, [[Montreal]], Canada, 1909; G.I. Dewar, Montreal, 1911
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The '''Rhine''' was a 1,691 ton iron [[sailing ship]] with a [[length]] of {{convert|257.2|ft|m}}, breadth of {{convert|38.3|ft|m}} and depth of {{convert|23.1|ft|m}}. She was built by Russel & Company, [[Port Glasgow]] for the [[Nourse Line]], named after the river [[Rhine]] which starts in [[Switzerland]] and flows via [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] to the [[North Sea]], and launched on 10 December 1885. She was primarily used for the transportation of [[India]]n [[indenture]]d labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin:0.5em auto"
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! Destination!!Date of Arrival!!Number of Passengers!!Deaths During Voyage
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| [[Trinidad]]||2 October 1888||677||5
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| [[Suriname]]||17 November 1890||n/a||n/a
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| Trinidad||13 December 1891||657||18
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| Trinidad||13 November 1892||664||11
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| Trinidad||23 October 1893||647||9
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| Trinidad||1 November 1895||680||10
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| Trinidad||13 December 1896||600||14
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| [[Fiji]]||30 August 1900||491||n/a
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| Trinidad||27 November 1902||587||2
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| Trinidad||18 February 1904||621||2
|-
| Trinidad||9 May 1905||612||4
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| Trinidad||9 March 1906||512||2
|}

The '''Rhine''' was sold by the Nourse Line in 1907 and passed through a number of owners. It was initially sold to R.C. Williams of [[New Brunswick]], [[Canada]], then in 1909 it was sold to W.H. Chandler, who operated the ship as Rhine Shipping Company, [[Montreal]], Canada. In 1911 the Rhine Shipping Company was sold to G.I. Dewar of Montreal, Canada, then in 1915 it was sold to new owners in [[Boston]], then was sold once more to W. McKissock of Boston and finally in 1923 was sold to E.P. Reiss of Boston for use as a barge.

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

== References ==
* {{cite book
| last = Perry
| first = F. W.
| title = Nourse Line
| publisher = World Ship Society
| year = 1991
| isbn = 0-905617-62-2
}}
* {{cite book
| last = Lubbock
| first = Basil
| title = Coolie ships and oil sailors
| publisher = Brown, Son & Ferguson
| year = 1981
| isbn = 0-85174-111-8
}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm Indian Immigrant Ship List]
* [http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html Genealogy.com]

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[[Category:Indian indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago]]
[[Category:History of Suriname]]
[[Category:Indian indenture ships to Fiji]]
[[Category:Individual sailing vessels]]
[[Category:Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Merchant ships of the United States]]
[[Category:Ships built on the River Clyde]]
[[Category:Barges]]
[[Category:1885 ships]]

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