Steam vessels. Abstract logs of various voyages out of Bombay by the following vessels: Atalanta 21 Apr-9 May 1845; Victoria 21 May-25 Nov 1845; Auckland 13 Jun-25 Sep 1844; Cleopatra 23 Sep 1844-26 Oct 1845; Sesostris 30 Aug 1844-27 Nov 1845; Queen 22 Aug-6 Sep 1845; Nemesis 9 Sep-18 Oct 1844; A...
This varied accumulation represents the surviving records of the East India Company's management of its commercial shipping activity to 1834, and of its other marine business (after 1858 the marine affairs of the India Office) until 1879. Knowledge about the range and scope of the operations of...
Historical sketch of shipping concerns of the East India Company, and papers on other marine subjects
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Comprises: (a) Historical sketch of the management of the shipping concerns of the East India Company, 1600-1796; (b) Index to the more important part of the proceedings on the shipping affairs of the East India Company from 1791; (c) Memorandum containing a general outline of the material and le...
Papers relating to East India Company's 'Ancient Commerce'
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(a) A book of copies of letters of Sir Thomas Roe, Lord Ambassador in the Indies, addressed to Captain Pepwell, also other letters with drafts of treaties and another project of a new treaty and an unsigned memorial of agreement with Zamorin. With index, 1615-1616; (b) Letters sent from Batavia f...
'Abstracts of ship’s journals preserved in the India Office (1610-1623)'
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This volume contains handwritten abstracts of journals of the Seventh, Tenth, Second Joint Stock, Fifth Joint Stock, and Seventh Joint Stock voyages of the East India Company, dating from 1610 to 1624, which had been preserved in the India Office. The volume is undated. It includes a tabular i...
These volumes contain various documents relating to different voyages, mostly East India Company voyages. There is a list of contents of the volumes on folios 4-5 of the first volume, signed by W Foster, presumably William Foster, Registrar and Superintendent of Records at the India Office, da...