Indiamen

They were huge lumbering tea-chests, as we used to call Indiamen, but they were fine-looking craft for all that.

Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The Florida's deck, when the crew were at their meals, was a curious scene; the plain fare of the sailors being served in costly china, captured from homeward bound "Indiamen," and the scamps had become fastidious in their taste about tea.

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

He utilized improved applications, but the principles of themselves were ever the same, whether in the war chariots of Achilles and Pharaoh or the mail-coach and diligence of the European traveller, the cavalry of the Huns or of Prince Rupert, the triremes and galleys of Greece and Rome or the East Indiamen and clipper ships of the last century.

The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

Indiamen at 10 or 11 knots developed 500 to 750 horsepower with a crew of about 80 hands.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009

The great transformation which came during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with Dutch and British exploitation of the sea was made with Indiamen of about a thousand tons.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009

Now we all have a chance to learn something new andimportant about the wonders of the lost Indiamen.

Pirates of the Atlantic 2008

Indeed Indiamen seem to have been the most technologically sophisticated sailing ships of their time, three and four-storied vessels capable of surviving both the ice storms of the African cape and the cyclones of Asia.

Pirates of the Atlantic 2008

The officers and crew in these East Indiamen also sailed on American voyages in smaller ships.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

So for years now, treasure hunters have rapaciously targeted the wrecks of the Indiamen.

Pirates of the Atlantic 2008

Since then it has been selling off the finds from the Indiamen that wrecked along Mozambique shores.

Pirates of the Atlantic 2008