India Jane

The East India Company, also known as the Honourable East India Company or simply the Company, was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. It was incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 16...

Steamships became ever bigger and the lock soon proved to have been insufficiently enlarged. The South Dock was, excepting Tilbury, the deepest dock in the Port in the late nineteenth century, but access was restricted by the length of its entrance l...