Avon (ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Dunolly
Owner	John Brown, Glasgow
Builder	Charles Connell, Glasgow
Launched	17 April 1884
Acquired	Nourse Line, 1890
Renamed	Avon, 1890
General characteristics
Class & type	Iron-hulled sailing ship
Tons burthen	1,572 tons
Length	255.6 ft (77.9 m)
Beam	37.6 ft (11.5 m)
Draught	22.6 ft (6.9 m)

The Avon, formerly known as Dunolly, was a 1,572 ton, iron sailing ship with a length of 255.6 feet, breadth of 37.6 feet and depth of 22.6 feet. She was built by Charles Connell of Glasgow in 1884 for John Brown of Glasgow. The Nourse Line bought the ship in 1890 and renamed it the Avon after the River Avon in the south west of England. She was primarily used by the Nourse Line for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

Destination	Date of arrival	Number of passengers	Deaths during voyage
Trinidad	1 March 1891	558	2
Trinidad	14 November 1891	621	27
Fiji	5 May 1892	520	n/a
British Guiana	1893	n/a	n/a
Trinidad	17 November 1895	151	2
Trinidad	12 December 1896	601	12
Suriname	4 April 1898	n/a	n/a
Fiji	25 July 1899	467	n/a
Trinidad	16 February 1901	598	6
Trinidad	12 January 1903	591	2
Trinidad	25 December 1903	576	2
Trinidad	23 February 1905	603	9
Trinidad	22 February 1906	609	1
Suriname	13 January 1907	n/a	n/a

Avon was a fast ship, sailing from Calcutta to St Helena in 62 days.

See also

• Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji

External links

• AVON picture
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild British Guiana
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: Trinidad
• Genealogy.com

Bibliography

Lubbock, Basil (1981). Coolie ships and oil sailors. Brown, Son & Ferguson. ISBN   0-85174-111-8.