Author: Andrew Norman
Publisher: Fonthill Media
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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The loss of East Indiaman HCS `Halsewell' on the coast of Dorset in southern England in January 1786, touched the very heart of the British nation. `Halsewell' was just one of many hundreds of vessels which had been in the service of the Honourable East India Company since its foundation in the year 1600. In the normal course of events, `Halsewell' would have been expected to serve out her working life, before passing unnoticed into the history books. However, this was not to be. Halsewell's loss was an event of such pathos as to inspire the greatest writer of the age Charles Dickens, to put pen to paper; the greatest painter of the age J. M. W. Turner, to apply brush to canvas, and the King and Queen to pay homage at the very place where the catastrophe occurred. Artefacts from the wreck continue to be recovered to this very day which, and for variety, interest, curiosity, and exoticism, rival those recovered from Spanish armada galleons wrecked off the west coast of Ireland two centuries previously. Such artefacts shed further light both on `Halsewell' herself, and on the extraordinary lives of those who sailed in her.
Author: Japan. TetsudÅin
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Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Author: Marlene Kessler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110421437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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This critically-commented source edition contains the commercial directions, merchant diary and naval log of four East India Company ships, which sailed from London to Canton, China in 1723, as well as the travelogue of another contemporary trader who sailed from Ostend. It highlights the roles of cooperation and competition in shaping the relations between these and other European companies as well as the everyday lives of European merchants and mariners. The edition thus sheds new light on the history of the East Indies trade during the eighteenth century and its role in encouraging early modern globalization.
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 1802
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Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1554
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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