Ostindiefararen Götheborg
Full-scale wooden replica of an eighteenth-century East India Company ship, moored at the quay.
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This guide to the East Indiaman Götheborg in Gothenburg goes back to September 1745, when the original ship was sailing home from Canton on her third voyage, her hold full of tea, porcelain and silk, with a pilot aboard on a fair day. It also follows the divers of 1984 and the long rebuilding that put a full-scale wooden copy back on the water. Best heard on the quay, looking up into the rigging.
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