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Renew your wedding vows in Goa, or gift a Ceremony Package to a close couple Multiple options to make your day extra special! http://www.renewalsetc.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. K.V. Hariharan article, 'A Century of Coastal Shipping - 1845 to 1945' appears in Indica, this month: he is retired Indian 'Navy Historian'. The Bombay Steam Navigation Company was floated (!) with a public subscription of one million rupees in 1845 by a group of two Parsees, an Englishman and the renowned Bombay native, 'Juggonnaut Sunkersett'. The office location was the place made familiar to so many of by the Examiner Press - Meadows Street. The line would serve ports from Ceylon to Saurashtra, starting with the 'Victoria', a 260 ton paddle-steamer. After two failures and relaunchings, the company was sold in 1906 to Killick Nixon and Company: it then owned 23 vessels and employed 3000 workers. Scindia Steam Navigation would finally acquire the business in 1939. In 1909, a novel experiment saw the creation of a new Line, when the Indian Co-operative Navigation Co. was formed. To sell shares, the founders solicited the middle-class and the working poor, with an eager response from the likes of mill, hotel and domestic workers. It was they who piously called what the company owned, the small St. Anthony and Champavati, the Mozi/Mazi Agboat Company, or 'Our Ship Company' ! Todays renowned Mazagon Dock Co. had it's origins in the small Scindia Shipyard, commenced on Frere Road by Bombay Steam in 1875. In a joint venture with Israel, the Dock has built and launched several nuclear powered submarines in recent years, so the US commentator who said " heavens, India has a Navy", yesterday, can eat her heart out ! eric.