Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'

10 February 2018

A Bit of Living History

This East Indiaman, sailing under Tower Bridge, came home to blighty for the first time since 1787.

It was a trading vessel for the Honourable East India Company a/k/a 'John Company', chartered by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I in 1600. The Company was wound up in 1858 after the great Sepoy Mutiny, when the Crown took over its holdings. 

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