Home Job Opportunities Contact Us Links 中文   We hope to continue building this page so that enthusiasts for the world of the sea, starting here, can set out on any virtual voyage of maritime exploration that takes their fancy. Let us know your favorite sites by e-mailing info@hkmaritimemuseum.org Museums in Hong Kong General Maritime History and Naval Heritage Homepage Maritime Museums General Regional Maritime Museums Research and History The East India Companies Marine Archaeology Chinese boats, ships and rigs Marine Art World Maritime & Naval History Maritime matters in general Charts and Navigation Charts Navigation Lighthouses GPS/Galileo Safety at sea Lifeboats Sea Music Shanties Literature of the Sea Historic ships Dictionaries of maritime terms Local maritime organisations   The East India Companies No one interested in the maritime history of South, Southeast and East Asia can ignore the European East India Companies. For the Austrian East India Company - there was one - see http://www.swaen.com/ostend.html For the British East India Company see for a general look, http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/eic.html. There are many, many similar pages, for example http://www.webindia123.com/history/modern/english_east_india_company.htm. Or the excellent Trading Places, http://www.bl.uk/services/learning/curriculum/trading/map.html For a view from the Asian side see http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/E_0005.htm If your interest is in British EIC ships the quite excellent http://www.eicships.info/ can only get better as details of the ships are culled from the archives For the Danish East India Company and a general review see http://www.scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html For the Dutch East India Company see http://batavia.ugent.be/ The French East India Company has only general pages in English, for example http://www.webindia123.com/history/MEDIEVAL/europeans in india/ Even in French there is nothing quite like the sources on the British East India Company, though http://www.histoire-genealogie.com/article is a good starting point if you read French For East India Company flags see http://www.anyflag.com/history For the Swedish East India Company (Svenska Ostindiska Companiet) - and especially the reconstruction of the Swedish 18th century company ship G?theborg (say 'yerterborg') go to http://www.soic.com or http://www.soic.se/ To Top   Copyright © Hong Kong Maritime Museum . All rights reserved.