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The ships of the East India Company - how they were built, manned, armed and sailed, and what a voyage to China actually involved. Chatterton wrote three dozen books on sailing ships and worked from the company's own records. This edition adds a gallery of 60 plates of maritime painting, among them works by J. M. W. Turner, Ivan Aivazovsky and Edwin Lord Weeks, alongside three illustrations restored and coloured for this printing.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter I Introduction
- Chapter II The Magnetic East
- Chapter III The Lure of Nations
- Chapter IV The Route to the East
- Chapter V The First East India Company
- Chapter VI Captain Lancaster Distinguishes Himself
- Chapter VII The Building of the Company’s Ships
- Chapter VIII Perils and Adventures
- Chapter IX Ships and Trade
- Chapter X Freighting the East Indiamen
- Chapter XI East Indiamen and the Royal Navy
- Chapter XII The Way They Had in the Company’s Service
- Chapter XIII The East Indiamen’s Enemies
- Chapter XIV Ships and Men
- Chapter XV At Sea in the East Indiamen
- Chapter XVI Conditions of Service
- Chapter XVII Ways and Means
- Chapter XVIII Life on Board
- Chapter XIX The Company’s Naval Service
- Chapter XX Offence and Defence
- Chapter XXI The “Warren Hastings” and the “Piémontaise”
- Chapter XXII Pirates and French Frigates
- Chapter XXIII The Last of the Old East Indiamen
- About the Author
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