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| | Ship name = ''Ganges''
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| '''''Ganges''''' was the first of three [[Nourse Line]] ships named for the [[Ganges river]] in northern [[India]].
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| The first Nourse Line ship was the 839-ton [[sailing ship]] ''Ganges'' built by William Pile of [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]] and launched on 9 July 1861. ''Ganges'' was considered a large vessel for her time and had a figurehead beneath the bowsprit represented ''Mother Ganges'' a symbol of fertility. She was the first of many Nourse Line vessels to be named after rivers. Immediately after being built, ''Ganges'' sailed to India to commence trading between [[Kolkatta|Calcutta]] and Australia where James Nourse hired her out to Tinne & Company, who were involved in the transport of [[sugar]], [[coffee]], [[rum]] and [[molasses]], and [[slavery|slaves]].{{Citation needed|reason=Slavery had been abolished within the British Empire long before Ganges first sailed|date=July 2017}}
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| As the Nourse Line went into the business of transporting Indian [[indenture]]d labourers to the [[West Indies]], ''Ganges'' made four voyages to [[Trinidad]]. On the first, on 9 April 1872, she transported 408 labourers, six of whom died on the voyage. The second trip on 11 May 1874 transported 383 labourers, with five deaths. The third voyage, on 10 February 1876, carried 379 passengers, with three deaths. The fourth, on 5 February 1878, carried 477 passengers, with 14 deaths.<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm Indian Immigrant Ship List]</ref> She also made a trip to [[Saint Lucia|St Lucia]] and on the return journey in 1867 brought 451 repatriated labourers back to India.<ref>[http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html Genealogy.com]</ref>
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| She was a fast ship, covering the distance between [[British Guiana]] and [[Cape Town]] in 42 days. However, lengthening her by {{convert|35|ft|m}} and increasing her tonnage from 839 to 1161 reduced her speed.
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| On 14 October 1881, she was wrecked on [[Goodwin Sands]] off [[Kent]], en route from [[Middlesbrough]] to Calcutta with railway iron. Three lives were lost in the wrecking.<ref>[http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/gynewsjs.htm Guyana: Land of Six Peoples]</ref>
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| == See also ==
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| *[[Ganges (1882)|''Ganges'' (1882)]]
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| *{{SS|Ganges}}
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| *[[Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji]]
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| *[[Indian indenture system]]
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| ==Citations==
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| == References ==
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| {{cite book
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| | last = Lubbock
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| | first = Basil
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| | authorlink = Basil Lubbock
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| | title = Coolie ships and oil sailors
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| | publisher = Brown, Son & Ferguson
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| | year = 1981
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| | isbn = 0-85174-111-8
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| [[hif:Ganges II]]
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