The ship <a about="#mwt71" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"HMT","href":"./Template:HMT"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Empire Windrush"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMT_Empire_Windrush" id="mw6g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="HMT Empire Windrush" typeof="mw:Transclusion">HMT<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Empire Windrush</i></a> brought the first group of 802 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies" id="mw6w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="West Indies">West Indian</a> immigrants to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilbury" id="mw7A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tilbury">Tilbury</a>, marking the start of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_United_Kingdom" id="mw7Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Modern immigration to the United Kingdom">modern immigration to the United Kingdom</a>.<sup about="#mwt75" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_22#cite_note-11" id="mw7g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw7w">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt72" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFRodgersAhmed2018">Rodgers, Lucy; Ahmed, Maryam (April 27, 2018). <a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43808007" id="mwBxY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Windrush: Who exactly was on board?"</a>. <i id="mwBxc"><a href="./BBC_News" id="mwBxg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="BBC News">BBC News</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBxk">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBxo">April 28,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt72" class="Z3988" id="mwBxs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Windrush%3A+Who+exactly+was+on+board%3F&amp;rft.date=2018-04-27&amp;rft.aulast=Rodgers&amp;rft.aufirst=Lucy&amp;rft.au=Ahmed%2C+Maryam&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-43808007&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+22"></span></span>