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Photo 146/1(302)

Record Id:

041-003049956

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003049654

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025648639.0x0009c9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 146/1(302)

Title:

Angediva, The North Canara Coast. The reputed grave of Sir Abram Shipman. Photographer: Venn, T.W.

Scope & Content:

It is said it at one time had an inscription, but it is no longer there. The marble cross was in pieces and was propped up for this picture. By the time more positive orders arrived from Lisbon to admit the English to Bombay, of Shipman and his 400 men only Ensign Cooke and 117 other ranks were alive to take possession of that place. (N.B. Dowry of Catherine of Braganza, Queen on Charles II). The remainder are buried on the island. “Poisoned partly by the Noissomness of the Air, the Violence of the Raines and the little defence against them but chiefly by their own Intemperance.”

There is little to show when the men were buried for the island is nothing but a laterite rock with just a few shallow pockets of soil. The ruins of lines of crude huts remain but whether these were used by the Portuguese garrison or by Shipman’s men one cannot definitely say.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003049654
040-003049655
041-003049956

Is part of:

Photo 146 : Thomas Walters Venn Collection: Photographs of Western India. Photographer(s): Venn, Thomas Walters
Photo 146/1 : Thomas Walters Venn Collection: 'Snapshot views of the West Coast of India'. Photographer(s): Venn, Thomas Walters

Photo 146/1(302) : Angediva, The North Canara Coast. The reputed grave of Sir Abram Shipman. Photographer: Venn, T.W.

Hierarchy:

032-003049654[0001]/040-003049655[0301]/041-003049956

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 146

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1930

End Date:

1939

Date Range:

1930-1939

Era:

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