- French,
Portuguese or
Swedish East
India companies. Some of the East
Indiamen chartered by the
British East
India Company (EIC) were
known as clippers...
-
postage stamps.
Ships of the East
India Company were
called East
Indiamen or
simply "
Indiamen".
Their names were
sometimes prefixed with the
initials "HCS"...
-
wrecked in
Weymouth Bay,
England in 1805. She was one of the
largest East
Indiamen ever built. John
Wordsworth was her
captain during her last two successful...
- merchantman. The East
India Company arranged for
letters of
marque for its East
Indiamen ships, such as the Lord Nelson. They did not need
permission to
carry cannons...
- East
Indiamen, for Europe. Bad
weather forced eight Indiamen back to the Cape.
These eight sailed again on 22 May. The
remaining eight Indiamen, which...
-
disputed because other 17th
century Ming
records stated that
European East
Indiamen and
galleons were 30, 40, 50, and 60
zhang (90, 120, 150, and 180 m) in...
- that period,
Saint Helena was an
important port of call of the EIC. East
Indiamen would stop
there on the
return leg of
their voyages to
British India and...
- in
which a
large convoy of
Honourable East
India Company (HEIC) East
Indiamen, well-armed
merchant ships, intimidated,
drove off and
chased away a powerful...
- line
wiped out the
French escort of six
ships of the line and
three armed Indiamen,
although in the
meantime the
merchant ships escaped. On 14 October, another...
- they have
scored successes in
combat against them.
Examples include East
Indiamen mimicking ships of the line and
chasing off
regular French warships in...
