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The Old East Indiamen

Chapter 26: FOOTNOTES:
By E. Keble Chatterton
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This work surveys the great merchant sailing ships that carried commerce between Europe and the East, detailing their design, construction, outfitting and the business arrangements that sustained long voyages under a trading monopoly. It describes the practical aspects of freighting, navigation and life aboard, and recounts perils at sea including encounters with privateers, naval actions and piracy. Illustrated chapters combine technical description, contemporary anecdotes and operational accounts to show how these vessels were built, manned and defended, and how changes in commerce and naval power eventually brought the era of the old Indiamen to a close.

FOOTNOTES:

A Drake of course had previously encircled the globe in a voyage of twenty-six months, having set forth from Plymouth in 1577, though his was even more of a buccaneering expedition than that of Candish.

B The longboat carried by these East Indiamen measured from twenty-seven to twenty-nine feet in length.

C The East Indiamen of about the middle of the eighteenth century rode to fifteen-inch cables.

D The Spaniard is a treacherous patch off the north-east corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

E For some details in this connection I am indebted to Lindsay’s “History of Merchant Shipping,” as well as to an article in The Mariner’s Mirror, vol. i., No. 1.

F Mentioned in Captain E. du Boulay’s “Bembridge, Past and Present.”

G I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness in this chapter to Captain Rathbone Low’s “History of the Indian Navy.”

H That is to say a ship belonging to the Ostend East India Company.