Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: The longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds have blown me hither and thither in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching t

I feel, then, that I may with confidence ask the reader who loves ships for themselves, or is fascinated by history, FIC Logistics or is specially interested in the rise of our Indian Empire, to follow me in the following pages while the story of these old East Indiamen is narrated. In a little whi