The Ships of the Swedish East India Company and their Expeditions 1731-1813

<BODY> <H1>Antique Chinese Porcelain, Ming dynasty, jar, Chinese porcelain, antique pottery marks</H1> <CENTER> <IMG SRC="../graphics/headline_ships.gif" ALT="The Swedish East India Company Ships and Expeditions 1731-1813"> <P></P> <H1><STRONG>The Ships of the Swedish East India Company and their Expeditions 1731-1813 and their cargo of Antique Chinese Porcelain, Ming dynasty, jar, Chinese porcelain, antique pottery marks</STRONG></H1> <P><STRONG><A HREF="skepp1.shtml">1. Friedericus Rex Sueciae</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp2.shtml">2. Drottning Ulrica Eleonora</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp3.shtml">3. Tre Cronor</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp4.shtml">4. Suecia</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp5.shtml">5. Götheborg</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp6.shtml">6. Stockholm</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp7.shtml">7. Riddarhuset</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp8.shtml">8. Calmar</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp9.shtml">9. Drottningen af Swerige</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp10.shtml">10. Cronprinsessan Lovisa Ulrica</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp11.shtml">11. Freden</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp12.shtml">12. Cronprinsen Adolph Friederic</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp13.shtml">13. Prins Gustaf</A> </STRONG></P> <TABLE> <TR> <TD VALIGN="top"><STRONG><A HREF="skepp14.shtml">14. Götha Leijon</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp15.shtml">15. Hoppet</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp16.shtml">16. Enigheten</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp17.shtml">17. Prins Carl</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp18.shtml">18. Prins Friedric Adolph</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp19.shtml">19. Prinsessan Sophia Albertina</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp20.shtml">20. Stockholms Slott</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp21.shtml">21. Riksens Ständer</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp22.shtml">22. Finland</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp23.shtml">23. Adolph Friedric</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp24.shtml">24. Lovisa Ulrica</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp25.shtml">25. Cron Prins Gustaf</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp26.shtml">26. Drottning Sophia Magdalena</A><BR></STRONG></TD> <TD VALIGN="top"> <STRONG><A HREF="skepp27.shtml">27. Terra Nova</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp28.shtml">28. Gustav III</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp29.shtml">29. Gustaf Adolph</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp30.shtml">30. Götheborg (II)</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp31.shtml">31. Drottningen</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp32.shtml">32. Maria Carolina</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp33.shtml">33. östergöthland</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp34.shtml">34. Wästergöthland</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp35.shtml">35. Fredrica</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp36.shtml">36. Prinsessan</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp37.shtml">37. Wasa</A><BR> <A HREF="skepp38.shtml">38. Hoppet</A></STRONG> <P><FONT SIZE="+2">O</FONT>ne of the easiest available sources regarding the Swedish East India Company (1731-1813) is Sven T. Kjellberg, <I>Svenska Ostindiska Companierna 1731-1813</I>, Malmö 1974, in the texts called STK.</P> <P>Sven T. Kjellberg got his information from the Directors of the Swedish East India Company first application for passports (<I>direktionens första ansökan till K. Maj:t om pass</I>) for each ship why the "time of departure" only was the assumed. To be able to calculate the actual length of each expedition I have when possibly compared all dates with other available sources, such as diaries and contemporary newspapers, and have done my best to indicate the most likely. But, use the dates with caution. Most welcome to report any and all errors you encounter to me, the author Jan-Erik Nilsson. All texts are for the time being still in Swedish. If you for some reason need some texts translated kindly contact me.</P> <P><B>Note on the Julianian Calendar of Sweden, not mentioned elsewhere</B> One issue worth considering for any researcher using data from the early 18th century is the fact that 11 days are missing from the February month of 1753, something which is likely to mess up navigational and business correspondence comparison between Sweden and the rest of the world around that date. The reason was that Sweden in this time abandoned the Julian Calendar. The counting of time had since long a small error, which was adjusted in the new Gregorian calendar. As you know the Earth needs slightly more then 365 days to make one turn around the sun why we have added a leap year every forth year to compensate for this. By the 14th century we had figured out that this extra day was still too much of an adjustment. In the Gregorian calendar every year dividable by 100 (secular years) was only to be a leap year if the year could be divided by four when deleting the last two zeros. Consequently, according to the Calendar of Gregor XIII the year 1600 was a leap year as well as the year 2000 while the 29th of February was left out in the secular years 1700, 1800 and 1900. Counted from years 0 the error had become 11 days by the mid 18th century. In France the new style was introduced already by the end of the 16th century and in Sweden the calendar was adjusted in 1753. The 17th of February was followed by the 1st of March and the time in-between does not exist. In Russia they changed this even later since the orthodox church did not accept the Catholic new calendar before after the revolution why the Russian Bolsheviks celebrate their October revolution the 5th of November. For comparisons kindly note that our present chronology is 13 days ahead of the old Julian Calendar.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </CENTER> </BODY>