Arno (ship)

The Arno , was a 1,825 ton, iron sailing ship with a length of 270.7 feet, breadth of 39 feet and depth of 22.5 feet. She was built by Charles Connell & Company, Glasgow for the Nourse Line, named after the Arno River in central Italy which flows past Florence and Pisa to the Mediterranean Sea, and launched on 19 January 1893. She was primarily used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

In 1896 she was grounded at West Hartlepool, inward bound under tow from Bremen.

The Arno was sold to Norwegian owners in 1910. On 10 October 1913 she left Fredrikstad for Pernambuco and went missing.

See also

* Indian Indenture Ships to Fiji

External links

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ttowgw/archives/indianships.htm Indian Immigrant Ship List]

References

*cite book
last = Perry
first = F. W.
title = Nourse Line
publisher =World Ship Society
date = 1991
id = ISBN 978-0-905617-62-6
*cite book
last = Lubbock
first = Basil
title = Coolie ships and oil sailors
publisher = Brown, Son & Ferguson
date = 1981
id = ISBN 978-0-85174-111-6