[BITList] Fwd: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Bangladesh Paddle Steamers

[John Feltham]

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From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham at gmail.com>
Date: 1 January 2009 4:54:34 PM
To: <india-british-raj at rootsweb.com>
Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Bangladesh Paddle Steamers
Reply-To: india-british-raj at rootsweb.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Feltham"
There may be some interested in this.
http://www.megoran.fsworld.co.uk/Chinsura.htm
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Arising from this, there is an old passenger paddlesteamer (that
used to ply on the River Ganga/Ganges), displayed at the Naval
and Maritime Museum in Calcutta.
http://www.bb62museum.org/wrldnmus.html

I remember reading about these old watercraft in the memoirs of
the Goden sisters (Two under the Tropical Sun?) and also in Miss
Fayne in India.

Then there is this book by Henry T Bernstein = Steamboats on the
Ganges : an exploration in the history of India's modernization through
science and technology. Published in Calcutta by Orient Longman,
in 1987. ISBN:0861317572 : 9780861317578   OCLC:18772870.

If you find yourself in Calcutta with ample leisure time, and if it's  
the
right season, you can take a cruise aboard MV Sukapha, which is a
12-cabin replica steamer run by Assam Bengal Navigation, an Indo-
British venture launched in 2003. From October to March, Sukapha
and her sister, Charaidew, ply the River Brahmaputra in Assam,
calling at temples, tea plantations and wildlife reserves. But in the
monsoon, the Brahmaputra often bursts its banks. So, rather than
sitting out the wet season in a dry dock, Sukapha sometimes takes
on the Hooghly, sailing up to the Ganges one week and back down
to Calcutta (officially Kolkata) the next. [see image]

(23 May 2008)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/riversandcanals/2014846/Indian-cruise-Fully-immersed-from-the-first.html

--- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar



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