Excellent history of the Blackwall Yard where many of the East India Co. Ships were built. Much on the East India Company and the ships that sailed for it, and a review of numerous specific "Blackwallers." The appendix includes a listing of the Blackwall frigates, when built, weight, their owners, etc.; old station lists; abstract logs of the Hotspur (London to Calcutta, 1863), The Tweed (first passage to Melbourne, 1873), and the Holmsdale (Melbourne to London, 1883); and finally, the sail area and spar plan of the Clarence