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On the following pages you can follow the old Swedish East India Company route to China, and visit their Ports of Call. Just click the map - or a direct link - and start your tour.
During 1731-1813 the ships of the Swedish East India Company called at several ports. Some were carefully chosen. Others they ended up at by pure chance.
For deciding their position at sea they were entirely dependent on the sun. A few weeks of bad weather could make them to end up basically anywhere.
An example of this is the East Indiaman Finland who in 1769 found themselves in Norway, instead of Spain.
During the entire period of the Swedish East India Company eight ships were lost.
One of the more spectacular losses took place in 1745 when the East Indiaman Gotheborg foundered on a reef only 900 meters from land in the harbor of Gothenburg on returning from a more than two year long trip to China.
After a ten year long marine archaeological excavation 1983-1992 of the wreck site, the circumstances of this accident still remains a mystery.
Go directly to the Ports of Call links pages:
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