- Bayard (ship)
The Bayard was a three masted, 67 metre long, 1,028 ton,
sailing ship built by T. Vernon and Son, Liverpool for the Hall Line in 1864. In 1868 she was transferred to Sun Shipping Company and in 1881 sold to Foley and Company. [ [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/ellerman5.htm The Ships List] ]On
20 August 1883 she arrived inSuva ,Fiji carrying 494India nindenture d labourers fromCalcutta . She had previously carried indentured labourers to the West Indies. [ [http://genforum.genealogy.com/grenada/messages/60.html Genealogy.com] ]In
6 May 1885 , "Bayard" hit an iceberg, 55 miles South ofCape Race while on a voyage from fromMarseilles to St.Pierre . The ship lost its stern, bowsprit, jib boom, foremast, topgallantmast and yard, but reached its destination on 23 May, leaking badly. [ [http://www.icedata.ca/icedb/ice/bergs2_01e.html#B DATABASE OF SHIP COLLISIONS WITH ICEBERGS] ]She was later used as a coaling ship for the whaling station in
South Georgia . Bayard lost its mooring at the coaling pier on the northern side of the island during a severe gale on6 June 1911 and ran aground on the rocks on the southern side of the island, where she rests there today, as a breeding site for blue-eyed shags. [ [http://www.sght.org/shipwrecks.htm Wrecks - South Georgia] ]See also
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Indian indenture system
*Indian indenture ships to Fiji References
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