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THE OLD EAST INDIAMEN E. KEBLE FHATTERTON Lieutenant RN.V.R, Aulknr o f Sailing Shs rznd their Slnry. Duuva Chasteet irr dlr Viwttc, Thofh HoZZund ipr fh Vigffe, Ships and Ways of OtArr Dqs, etc. ILL USTHA TED PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY LONDON T. WERNER LAURIE LTD. THE OLD EAST INDIAMEN CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION . CONTENTS IV. THE ROUTE TO THE EAST . V. THE FIRST EAST INDIA COMPANY, VI. CAPTAIN LANCASTER DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF VII. THE BUILDING OF THE COMPANYS SHIPS . VIII. PERILS AND ADVENTURES IX. SHIPS AND TRADE X. FREIGHTING THE EAST INDIAMEN XI. EAST INDIAMEN AND TIIE ROYAL NAVY XII. THE AY THEY HAD IN THE COMPANYS SERVICE XIII. THE EAST INDIAMENS ENEMIES XIV. SHIPS AND MEN . XV. AT SEA IN THE EAST INDIAMEN XVI. CONDITIONS OF SERVICE XVII. WAYS AND MEANS XVIII. LIFE ON BOARD . XIX. THE COMPANYS NAVAL SERVICE . . PAGE 1 vi COFfTEWrS S. Q- 5 . - X 4. - - CHAPTE E Q XX. OFFENCE AND DEFENCE . fsi-., XXI. THE WARREN HASTINGS AND THZ XXII. PIRATES . L --.K . . - PITOHTAISE h . p m - 8 - - -2, AND FRENCH FRIGATES 3rd - . XXIII. THE LAST OF THE OLD EAST INDIAMEN . 3t9- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The East Indiaman Thornas Couft . . Frotixiece The East India House . PACING PAGE 4 The Hon. East India Co.s Ship Gezt-al Goddard with B.M.S. Sceptre and Swallow capturing Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena . The Essex East Indiaman at anchor in Bombay Harbour, The East Indiaman Kenf . Dutch East lndiamen . The launch of the Hon. East India Co.s Ship Edinburgh . India House, tbe Sale Room . 12 24 42 54 78 88 The Hon. East India Co.s Ship BnlZgewatr entering Madras Roads m The Halsezweld East Indiaman . . 104 The Seringuafam East Indiaman . . 120 A Barque Free-trader in the London Docks . . 130The Press-Gang at Work . . 140 The East Indiaman Swallow er . 182 Commodore Sir Nathaniel Dance 190 Repulse of Admiral Linois by the China Fleet under Cornmodore Sir Nathaniel Dance . . 196 A view of the East India Docks in the early 19th Century . 210 The TAuzes East Indiaman . - 218 The Windka East Indiaman sailing from St Helena . . 224 The Jessie and EZiza jam in Table Bay, I 829 . . 236 The Awed East Indiaman I-. . 242 The East Indiaman Cruiser Palathr in Suez Harbour, . 250 The East lndiaman Tntola, rough sketch of stern . . 256 The East I ndiaman Earl Balcawes . . 262 Deck scene of the East Indiarnan Tn7ou . a66 The West Indiaman Tketis . . 272 The Kent East Indiaman on fire in the Bay of Biscay . . 276 The Cambria brig receiving the last boat-load from the Kent . 282 The Vernon East Indiaman . 294 The SiJelln East Indiaman 36 The East lndiaman Qum . 318 The East Indiaman Malabar, built of wood in 1860 . - 330 The BZenBeim East Indiaman . 340 vii PREFACE THE author desires to acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs T. H. Parker Brothers of Whitcomb Street, W.C., for allowing him to reproduce the illustrations mentioned on many of the pages of this book as also the P. 0. Steam Navigation Company for permission to reproduce the old painting of the Swaddow. Owing to the fact that the author is now away at sea serving under the White Ensign, it is hoped that this may be deemed a sufficient apology for any errata which may have been allowed to creep into the text. viii THE OLD EAST INDIAMEN CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION IN this volume I have to invite the reader to con- sider a special epoch of the worlds progress, in which the sailing ship not only revolutionised British trade but -laid thefoundations of, and almost corn. pleted, that imposing structure which is to-day represented by the Indian Empire. It is a period brimful of romance, of adventures, travel and the exciting pursuit after wealth. It is a theme which for all its deeply human aspect, is one for ever dominated by a grandeur and irresistible destiny. With all its failings, the East India Company stiIl remains in history as the most amazingly powerful trading concern which the world has ever seen...
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