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As the Victorian age dawned so came the end of the East Indiamen; those armed merchant vessels which shuttled between England, India and China throughout the seenteenth and eighteenth centuries and into the early nineteenth.
The Leguan. The East Indiaman “Saint Vincent” Saving the Crew of the East Indiaman “Ganges”, 29 May 1807. East Indiaman 'Herefordshire'.
Hace 4 días · This book examines the development of British commercial, financial and political relations with India and the Far East during the final period of the East India Company's reign as the sovereign power in India.
- Anthony Webster
- 2009
The East Indiaman “Saint Vincent” Saving the Crew of the East Indiaman “Ganges”, 29 May 1807 by William John Huggins (1781-1845). Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 60.9 cm. Courtesy of National Maritime Museum, London, no. BHC3622, and Art UK.
East Indiamen were the largest merchant ships regularly built during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, generally measuring between 1100 and 1400 tons burthen (bm). Two of the largest were the Earl of Mansfield and Lascelles being built at Deptford in 1795.
12 de sept. de 2012 · This book examines the last seventy years of the East India Company's active life as the governing agent for the British Empire in India. The aim of the study is to explore how new commercial interest groups emerged from within the shadow of the Company to compete for political influence in the determination of imperial strategies in ...
Hace 2 días · East India Company ships, known as East Indiamen, were the largest of their time and were described as 'the aristocrats of the navy'. The company built its own shipyard at Deptford in 1609. After 1649, when the company realised it was more profitable to hire ships than own them, it became the custom to charter shipping.
