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The Golden Age of British Empire shipping - 'Shipping Wonders Of The World'

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Posted by 1943Mike on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:46 AM

Thanks for that link. Facinating material.

Looks like the rat lines of the Terra-Nova were metal in this video which was linked from your original link. (As was most of the standing rigging in many late 19th century sailing ships I suppose).

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/return-of-terra-nova/query/terra+nova

Mike

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Hector Berlioz

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Posted by crackers on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:46 AM

Founded by Queen Elizabeth I, who granted a royal charter on December 31, 1600, the British East India Company lasted until 1874 when it was disbanded. Its traiding influence in the Far East with India and China was so powerful that the company was considered a nation within a nation, as it had its own standing army, minted its own coins and had trading ships as powerful as the Royal Navy.

If one is doing research on shipping and British trading, the influence of the Honorable Company, as was the British East India Company was known, can not be ignored.

Happy modeling    Crackers   Geeked

Anthony V. Santos

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Posted by warshipguy on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:36 AM

Thanks for the link!  I will check it out.

Bill

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The Golden Age of British Empire shipping - 'Shipping Wonders Of The World'
Posted by gregbale on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:26 AM

Found this amazing website in the course of doing some project research.

"Shipping Wonders Of The World" was a weekly magazine published in the UK between January 1936 and February 1937, that contained a dizzying range of articles on all things maritime---mainly with a British slant, of course. War stories, history articles, and wonderful reports on the then-current shape of the shipping and maritime world were presented, often written by experts in the field(s) reported, and regularly accompanied by beautiful photographs and illustrations.

Apparently the series was intended from the outset to be published in a bound two-volume set. The series ran to 55 parts, and the website has descriptions of each of these, with MANY links to the original articles (when available)---a veritable treasure-trove of between-the-wars maritime information and history.

I've just scratched the surface, myself, so I'm not exactly sure how much material there really is...but everything I've seen so far is exceptionally interesting. I'd never heard of the publication before, and found it entirely by accident, so I thought I'd share it with those nautical-philes who were as unaware of it as I was.

The website: http://www.shippingwondersoftheworld.com/

Be sure to check out the 'themes' tab at the top of the page. Topics like 'The Navy Goes To Work,' 'Great Voyages In Little Ships,' and 'Dramas Of Salvage' (to name but a very few) are too wonderful to pass up.

Hope you folks enjoy it as much as I do!

Greg

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