Shipwrecks of the Honourable East India Company around the world
作者:
R. Larn,
期刊:
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 19,
issue 1
页码: 13-13
ISSN:1057-2414
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1095-9270.1990.tb00225.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Summary.Drawing upon extensive study of HEIC ships lost around the world, this contribution reviewed losses by sea area. Starting with UK shipwrecks and territorial waters, the survey included in the Thames Estuary theAlbion, Hindostan, the loss of theMarsandWalpolenear Margate; theAdmiral GardnerandBritanniaon the Goodwins (in the same convoy);Henry Addington, Earl of AbergavennyandAlbemarleon the south coast, and four in the Isles of Scilly, finishing with strays in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary.An estimated 200–220 vessels were lost during the operation of the English East India Company. By comparison there were approximately 246 VOC ships wrecked around the world. Of these 27 sank in UK waters; six were lost on the Goodwin Sands (three part of the same convoy), and two in Plymouth Sound. A detailed paper is in preparatio
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