NEW YEAR

Seawise Greetings from allaboutshipping

Seawise Greetings from allaboutshipping

The entire team at allaboutshipping.co.uk would like to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly thank you all for your continued support throughout this decade and in particular for 2021 and to wish you, your family and associates all the very best with Good Health above all!

Moreover our minds are with the thousands of Seafarers at Sea who keep us alive in all aspects and we urge the International Society to look after them in these COVID days and avoid...

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Ship With Gifts That Sailed from England in 1613

An article published in Scroll.in picturizes the East India Company ship sailed from England in 1613 for Surat and Bantam in company with the Hector, Hope and Solomon. The fleet carried many gifts chosen for rulers in Asia to encourage the granting of trading privileges. It remembers the close friendships between shipmates, the way of travel with their valuable gifts in an unpredictable journey.

Gifts for Emperor Jahangir

The presents selected for the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir, included a scarlet...

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Time Ball: An Invention That Inspired New York Tradition

A Victorian invention inspired Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball drop (Credit: Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

According to an article published in BBC Travel, a British Royal Navy officer named Robert Wauchope is credited with creating the time ball, an ingenious Victorian-era contraption that inspired New York’s New Year’s Eve ball drop.

Ringing in the new year

When the final hours of 2019 arrive, a million celebrants will crowd Times Square in New York. Elsewhere, an estimated billion more will tune in to watch the annual spectacle celebrated across the globe.

As the decade reaches its last 60 seconds,...

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