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Название: The Loss of the "Trades Increase": An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe
Автор: Richmond Barbour
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 321
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 10 MB

Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean era—a magnificent ship embodying the hopes of the nascent East India Company to claim a commanding share of the Eastern trade. But the ship's launch failed when it proved too large to exit from its dock, an ill-fated start to an expedition that would end some three years later, when a dangerously leaking Trades Increase at last reached the shores of Java. While its smaller companion vessel would sail home with handsome profits for investors, the rotting hull of the great ship itself was beyond repair. The Trades Increase and nearly all who sailed it perished wretchedly on the far side of the world.