The original ship sank in 1743, crashing on rocks just outside the port it was going to call at. No one died, but more than three hundred thousand porcelain articles from China went down to the bottom of the sea. You can read about it at the site that one of the founder's set up.
Right now, it's here at the Chennai Port and it'll be staying there until the 10th of February. I was planning on going there today but I was informed at 8 in the morning that we had class today, on a Saturday! That was quite disappointing because I thought they were only open on weekdays. So tomorrow I shall be on a real live sailing ship (granted it has engines, but the cap'n says the sails is faster). Fascinating story behind it, very interesting. The project's official site is here.
If you're in town try to go get a look at it. I've been told they charge 50 rupees and you can go there on the 5th and the 6th too.
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Damn! It looks amazing. Wish I could see it. This isn't fair, dammit!
We think we can make use of these opportunities to be out of the college routine but nooooo the college wants to hold a working day.
Haha, well they can't possibly make it a holiday for a week.
[...] I have a couple of photos, but I shall post only two because that way you don’t get to see how bad I can get at taking photographs. Well, actually that’s not a very good reason. The actual reason is, my younger brother will charge royalties because he’s in the rest of them and he’s greedy. The only person greedier than him is Marc, but Marc isn’t in these photographs, so all is well. For those who don’t know what this ship is, it docked in Madras in Jan and I was supposed to have put up these photos then. Here’s the blog entry on the sailing ship when it docked in Madras. [...]