MAIN (SHIP)

The 'Main' was a 1691 ton, iron sailing ship built by Russel & Company for the Nourse Line and launched in August 1884. She is recorded as having completed the journey from Sharpness to Calcutta on 20 July 1900 in 100 days but was mainly used to transport Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these are shown below:

Destination	Date of Arrival	Number of Passengers	Deaths During Voyage
Fiji	30 April 1885	735	n/a
Trinidad	31 October 1891	631	24
Trinidad	1 November 1894	643	21
Trinidad	1 November 1895	651	3
Trinidad	4 November 1896	650	0
Trinidad	21 January 1900	627	4
Trinidad	2 December 1903	602	2
Surinam	15 October 1906	n/a	n/a

The 'Main' was sold to Norwegian owners in 1910-11 and renamed ''Vansa''.

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See also

★ Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji

★ Indian indenture system

External links

★ Indian Immigrant Ship List

★ Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

References

Coolie ships and oil sailors, , Basil, Lubbock, Brown, Son & Ferguson, , ISBN 0-85174-111-8