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Ships & ways of other days (1913)

Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 416

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Ifl < THE NINETEENTH CENTURY night, and by day whenever there was the least tempta-tion. But the East India was a fine service and asplendid school for British seamanship, a calling that … Man in the Chains Heaving the Lead on an Old Wooden Sailing Ship. (From a contemporary lithograph.) has so considerably died out during the last forty years.In the year 1832 the valuable monopoly which the EastIndia Company had enjoyed for so long a time was putan end to. Commerce was thrown open,…

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