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Jessie Logan (ship)
The Jessie Logan was an American-built English East Indiaman which was wrecked after striking rocks near Boscastle on the north coast of Cornwall in South West England in January 1843. The subsequent unlawful raiding of the ship's cargo by locals led to a change in the law. The ship ''Jessie Logan'' was a cargo ship built in North America in 1830. It was known as a “Quebecker” and was owned by J Logan & Co of Liverpool. The ship weighed 805 tons. The wreck ''Jessie Logan'' left Calcutta on 14 September 1842 bound for Liverpool with a cargo of rice, cotton, flax, spices, buffalo horns and hides, shellac, raw sugar and dyewood. On 22 January 1843, the ship was driven onto rocks near Blackapit, just south of Willapark, Boscastle. The storm which affected northern France and South West England caused the loss of 180 ships and the deaths of 450 people.https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?253292 accessed 11 My 2022 Heavy seas on 13 January had carried away the ship's poop, crushed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vessels belonging to the Austrian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, or Swedish companies. Some of the East Indiamen chartered by the British East India Company were known as "tea clippers". In Britain, the East India Company held a monopoly granted to it by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1600 for all English trade between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. This grant was progressively restricted during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, until the monopoly was lost in 1834. English (later British) East Indiamen usually ran between England, the Cape of Good Hope and India, where their primary destinations were the ports of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. The Indiamen often continued on to China before returning to England via t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
