''Bayard'' was a three masted, 67 metre long, 1,028 ton,

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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. On 20 August 1883 she arrived in

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, Fiji carrying 494 Indian indentured labourers from

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. She had previously carried indentured labourers to the West Indies. On 6 May 1885, ''Bayard'' hit an iceberg, South of

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while on a voyage from

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to St. Pierre. The ship lost her stern, bowsprit, jib-boom, foremast, topgallantmast and yard, but reached her destination on 23 May, leaking badly. She was later used as a coaling ship for the whaling station in

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. ''Bayard'' lost her mooring at the coaling pier in Ocean Harbour during a severe gale on 6 June 1911 and ran aground on the rocks on the southern side of the bay, where the wreck still remains, as a breeding site for blue-eyed shags.Wrecks - South Georgia
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