Jumna was named after the Jamuna river, a tributary of the Ganges. This was the first of three ships in the Nourse Line fleet to be called Jumna. The second Jumna was a steamship that was built in 1929 and sunk by a Germancruiser in 1940.[1] The third was a motor ship that was built in 1962, renamed in 1972 and scrapped in 1985.[2]
William PileofSunderland built Jumna, launching her on 17 August 1867. She was 208.6 ft (63.6 m) long, her beam was 34.1 ft (10.4 m) and her depth was 20.1 ft (6.1 m).[3]
The 310 labourers she carried to Fiji in 1893 was the smallest number of passengers carried by any ship transporting Indian indentured labourers to Fiji.
On 22 December 1893 Jumna transported 487 indentured labourers from the Volga (which had sunk) to Jamaica. In 1883 she repatriated 95 labourers back to India from Saint Lucia and another 137 in August 1892.
In 1898 NP Hoyer bought Jumna and registered her in SkieninNorway. On 21 February 1899 she left Greenock in Scotland laden with coal for MontevideoinUruguay. She was last seen passing Rathlin Island in the North Channel. She was never seen again, and in due course was posted missing.[3]
^"Jumna (1929)". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^"Jumna (1962)". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ ab"Jumna (1867)". Wear Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (1868). Mercantile Navy List. Board of Trade. p. 213. Retrieved 25 February 2021 – via Crew List Index Project.
^Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (1884). Mercantile Navy List. Board of Trade. p. 385. Retrieved 25 February 2021 – via Crew List Index Project.
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