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History of boats and ships


Introduction

I became interested the history of commercial sailing ships when transposing letters written by a relative who worked (and died) in Shanghai around the 1900s. I wondered how long his letters took to get back to Switzerland. One thing led to another and here we are; Google analytics indicates that this is the most popular of my various sites.

This is an updated version of the original site. I am using Rapidweaver to generate more modern pages. In particular, I am adding lightbox effects so that when you click on pictures a larger version appears floating over the page. Enjoy !

Credits

Most of the material presented here has been gleaned from the Internet. Over the years, I have looked at hundreds of sites, downloaded thousands of photos and modified the best ones to suit the web. In so doing, I lost track of some of my sources.... Sorry !

if I have used material that belongs to you and not given you adequate credit, please contact me.

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