Avon (ship)

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| Ship name = Dunolly

| Ship owner = John Brown, Glasgow

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| Ship builder = Charles Connell, Glasgow

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| Ship launched = 17 April 1884

| Ship acquired = Nourse Line, 1890

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| Ship renamed = Avon, 1890

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| Ship class = Iron-hulled sailing ship

| Ship tons burthen = 1,572 tons

| Ship length = {{convert|255.6|ft|abbr=on}}

| Ship beam = {{convert|37.6|ft|abbr=on}}

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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:

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| Trinidad

1 March 1891

| 558

2

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| Trinidad

14 November 1891

621

| 27

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| Fiji

5 May 1892

520

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| British Guiana

1893

n/a

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| Trinidad

17 November 1895

| 151

2

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| Trinidad

12 December 1896

| 601

12

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| Suriname

4 April 1898

| n/a

n/a

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| Fiji

25 July 1899

467

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| Trinidad

16 February 1901

| 598

6

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| Trinidad

12 January 1903

591

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| Trinidad

25 December 1903

576

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| Trinidad

23 February 1905

| 603

9

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| Trinidad

22 February 1906

| 609

1

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| Suriname

13 January 1907

n/a

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

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070926222739/http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/brodie/0/0/2/doc/bs002172.shtml AVON picture]
[http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/guiana.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild British Guiana]
[http://www.immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/trinadad.html Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: Trinidad]
[http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html Genealogy.com]