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After the construction of the Strand Road, in the 1820s, shipbuilding was concentrated at Sulkea, Howrah, and Kidderpore. The greatest shipbuilding years on the Hooghly up to 1839 were 1813 (21 vessels and 10,376 tons ( bm )), 1801 (19 vessels and 10,079 tons (bm)), and 1816 (18 vessels and 8,198 tons (bm)).
Kidderpore College St. Thomas Engineering College Malaviya Vidyalaya at 16, Hem Chandra Street, Kolkata 700023 is a Hindi medium, government aided Co-educational school affiliated to West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) established in the year 1955 in the memory of 'Mahamana' Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya.
Year built Where built Remarks Nerbuddah†, or Nerbuda‡ Schooner 106 1776 Bombay Dockyard Captured by the French 1782 Nereide† Yacht 237 1821 Kidderpore Sold 1824; sent to England Nymphe† Sloop 180 1778 Batavia Patna† Sloop 108 1778 Java Buoy vessel 1793; sold 1796 Phillip Dundas†‡ Brig 176 / 187 1797, or 1798 Bombay Dockyard Sold.
Teak-built; sheathed in Yellow Metal (Muntz metal) in 1851 & 1854 Lord Hungerford was launched at Calcutta in 1814. Her most notable voyages were one transporting convicts to Van Diemen's Land and two for the British East India Company .
The H[onourable] C[ompany's] S[hip] Pluto was built in 1822 for the British East India Company (EIC) as a steam dredge for Calcutta. The EIC converted her into a floating battery and she served during the first Anglo-Burmese war (1824 to 1826). At the end of the war, the EIC sold her and, her engine having been removed, she became a coal depot.
Richard Hakluyt was an English writer who is remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598–1600).
RMS Empress of Australia was an ocean liner built in 1913–1919 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) for the Hamburg America Line. [1] She was refitted for Canadian Pacific Steamships; and the ship – the third of three CP vessels to be named Empress of China [2] – was renamed yet again in 1922 as Empress of Australia.
She was built by Kyds of Kidderpore, Calcutta [1] as a 133-ton merchant vessel with two 16 horsepower (12 kW) side-lever engines manufactured by Henry Maudslay of Lambeth. She was launched on 12 July 1823, and purchased by the Bengal Government at the suggestion of Commander Frederick Marryat . [ 1 ]