HMS Jumna (1848)

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History
Royal Navy Ensign
NameHMS Jumna
BuilderBombay Dockyard
Launched7 March 1848
FateSold in 1862.
Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom
NameJumna
OwnerJ. Wills & Son
FateLost between Hobart and Fremantle in 1881
General characteristics
Type brig
Length111 feet (34 m)[1]
Beam34.77 feet (10.60 m)[1]
Draught15.42 feet (4.70 m)[1]

HMS Jumna was a brig of the Royal Navy, built at the Bombay Dockyard, initially intended to be named HMS Zebra and launched on 7 March 1848 as Jumna. She was paid off and sold 25 June 1862.

Fate[]

Jumna arrived at Hobart, Tasmania on 4 November 1881 from Port Louis, Mauritius, with a cargo of sugar and unable to obtain a charter, took in ballast, and left for Fremantle, Western Australia on 19 November and was never seen again.[2]

The Australian National Shipwreck Database reports that she was lost "between Ports, possibly South Fremantle".[1] She carried a crew of four able seamen and 16 apprentices.[3]

Citations[]

  1. ^ a b c d "View Shipwreck – Jumna". Australian National Shipwreck Database. Australian Government, Department of Environment and Energy. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  2. ^ "The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania), Saturday 22 April 1882, p.2". Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  3. ^ A. Chittenden, “Some notes about brig Jumna, Sea Breezes, 115 (12) June 1929, p.152

References[]

Coordinates: 31°30′S 112°00′E / 31.5°S 112.0°E / -31.5; 112.0

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