 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1832 - 600 pages
...with every wind that blows. Flax of a good quality is also the produce of our territories in India. It is calculated that every ship in the navy of Great Britain is renewed every 12 years. It is well known that teak wood-built ships last 50 years and upwards. Many ships Bombay-built,... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1857 - 1036 pages
...oblong every wind that blows. Flax of good quality is also the produce of our territories in India. It is calculated that every ship in the navy of Great Britain is renewed every twelve years. It is well known that teakwood-built ships last fifty years and upwards. Many ships Bombaybuilt, after running... | |
 | Lajpat Rai (Lala) - 1917 - 410 pages
...constructed are capable of containing vessels of any force." As for their quality the same authority said : " It is calculated that every ship in the navy of Great Britain is renewed every twelve years. It is well known that teak-wood built ships last fifty years and upwards. Many ships, Bombay built, after... | |
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Bombay-built, after running fourteen or fifteen years, have been bought into the navy and were considered as strong as ever. The Sir Edward Hughes performed, I believe, eight voyages as an Indiaman... 