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|}'''SS ''Virawa''''' was a 3,334-ton [[steamship]]. She was built for the [[British-India Steam Navigation Company]] in 1890. She was one of the early B.I.S.N. ships to use telemotor [[steering]] [[gear]].<br />
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She was a passenger cargo vessel, also used for the transportation of [[Indian indenture system|Indian indentured labourers]] to the colonies. On 26 April 1895 she arrived in [[Fiji]] with 677 [[indenture]]d Indian labourers on board. She made her second trip to Fiji exactly seven years later, on 26 April 1902 with 718 passengers. Her third trip to Fiji was on 17 July 1905 with 615 passengers and her final trip to Fiji was on 23 March 1907 with 759 passengers. She is also recorded as having transported Indian indentured labourers to [[Trinidad]], arriving on 17 October 1901 with 734 passengers. There were 9 deaths during this voyage.<br />
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''Virawa'' was scrapped at [[Bombay]] in 1921.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji]]<br />
* [[Indian indenture system]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{cite web |url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm |title=Indian Immigrant Ship List |website=[[RootsWeb]] |accessdate=2013-09-14}}<br />
* {{cite web |url=http://www.biship.com/fleetlists/fleet1890-1899.htm |title=BI Fleet list 1890-1899 |website=BIShip |accessdate=2013-09-14}}<br />
* {{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bisn.html |title=British India Steam Navigation Company |website=The Ships List |department=The Fleets |accessdate=2013-09-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185202/http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bisn.html |archivedate=16 July 2012 |df=dmy-all }}<br />
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== References ==<br />
*{{cite book |last=Blake |first=George |authorlink=George Blake (novelist) |title=B.I. Centenary |publisher==Collins |year=1956 |isbn=0-905617-62-2}}<br />
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