Engineering:Clyde (1894 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Clyde (ship).

History
United Kingdom
Name:	Clyde
Owner:	Nourse Line
Builder:	Russell & Company, Port Glasgow, Scotland
Launched:	25 July 1894
Norway
Fate:	Scrapped 1925
General characteristics
Class and type:	Iron hulled sailing ship
Tons burthen:	1,840
Length:	270 ft 9 in (82.5 m)
Beam:	39 ft (12 m)
Draught:	22 ft 5 in (6.8 m)

Clyde was built by Russell & Company, Port Glasgow, Scotland, for the Nourse Line, and named after the River Clyde flowing through Glasgow, and launched on 25 July 1894. The Clyde was the last sailing ship built for the Nourse Line. She was primarily used 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
Fiji	1 June 1897	670	n/a
Trinidad	16 February 1902	574	4
Suriname	14 December 1904	n/a	n/a

On 9 March 1906 she ran aground at Cape Hatteras, en route from Barbados to New York City . She was refloated on 9 May 1906 and taken to New York for repairs. On 31 July 1906 she was sold to M & G.R. Clover of London. She was resold a number of times to different Norway owners and broken up in 1924.

See also

• Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji

External links

• The Ships List
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: Trinidad

References

• Perry, F. W. (1991). Nourse Line. World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-62-2. 
• Lubbock, Basil (1981). Coolie ships and oil sailors. Brown, Son & Ferguson. ISBN 0-85174-111-8.