Jumna (ship)

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The Jumna, named after a tributary of the Ganges in northern India, was a 1,048 ton, iron sailing ship built for the Nourse Line, William Pile of Sunderland in 1867. She was 208.6 feet long, 34.1 feet wide and 20.1 feet deep. The ship was used in the transport of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies which was a speciality of the Nourse Line. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

Destination	Date of Arrival	Number of Passengers	Deaths During Voyage
Trinidad	10 February 1874	430	17
Trinidad	28 February 1880	435	3
Trinidad	10 January 1889	456	6
Fiji	27 June 1891	447	n/a
Fiji	23 May 1893	310	n/a

The 310 labourers she carried to Fiji in 1983 was the smallest number of passengers carried by any ship transporting Indian indentured labourers to Fiji.

On 22 December 1893, the Jumna transported 487 indentured labourers from the Volga (which had sunk) to Jamaica. In 1883 she repatriated 95 labourers back to India from St Lucia and another 137 in August 1892.

In 1898 Jumna was sold to Norwegian owners.