- Dutch, English, French,
Portuguese or
Swedish companies. Some of the East
Indiamen chartered by the
British East
India Company were
known as "tea clippers"...
-
postage stamps.
Ships of the East
India Company were
called East
Indiamen or
simply "
Indiamen".
Their names were
sometimes prefixed with the
initials "HCS"...
- merchantman. The East
India Company arranged for
letters of
marque for its East
Indiamen ships, such as the Lord Nelson. They did not need
permission to
carry cannons...
-
sometimes quite heavily, as in the case of the
Manila galleons and East
Indiamen. They were also
sometimes escorted by warships.
Piracy is
still quite common...
-
disputed because other 17th
century Ming
records stated that
European East
Indiamen and
galleons were 30, 40, 50, and 60
zhang (90, 120, 150, and 180 m) in...
- that period,
Saint Helena was an
important port of call of the EIC. East
Indiamen would stop
there on the
return leg of
their voyages to
British India and...
- line
wiped out the
French escort of six
ships of the line and
three armed Indiamen,
although in the
meantime the
merchant ships escaped. On 14 October, another...
- they have
scored successes in
combat against them.
Examples include East
Indiamen mimicking ships of the line and
chasing off
regular French warships in...
- the
Dutch the
English seamen got the infatuation, and
there are very few
Indiamen, but what has some one on board, who
pretends to have seen the apparition...
-
striped red,
imported in 1792.
Further camellias imported in the East
Indiamen were ****ociated with the
patrons whose gardeners grew them: a
double red...
