Two shipping lines call regularly at
Zanzibar and scheduled air services op-
erate between Zanzibar, Kenya and
Tanganyika, and Zanzibar and Pemba.
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Cloves account for three-quarters of
Zanzibar’s export income, with coconut
products making up much of the rest.
...interesting, but what’s the name of the ship that carried bonny prince obama in his mummy’s tummy over the sea?
LOL!
This site is devoted to all subjects connected with the shipping company British India Steam Navigation, or BI as it is most often known. BI was formed in 1856 and remained one of the largest companies in the British mercantile marine until it was finally entirely absorbed into P&O in 1972
The mail Contract in itself was not an attractive bargain, but East Africa was then in an early stage of development, and at Aden BI ships could take over from the larger P&0 vessels all manner of manufactured goods from Europe and the States. They could bring back the typical products of the region—coconut in various forms, cloves and rare timbers. The company’s services were extended southwards down the coasts of East Africa to Portuguese East Africa, there only to meet the opposition of what is now the Union-Castle line.
From Zanzibar, the first base, the ships visited the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion. A regular service took to running from Zanzibar by way of the Comoro Islands to Madagascar. Another swept right round the Indian Ocean from Bombay to Aden. Aden to Zanzibar, and so southwards to Mozambique and Delagoa Bay
It was of more importance now that the British Government came to its senses after his death and took the East African problems in hand. The railway from Mombasa right up to Nairobi was duly completed
BOOK:
Last Hours on Dara by P J Abraham. Published by Peter Davies, London, 1963.
An account, winning the author few friends in BI, of the loss of Dara in the Gulf during April 1961, told by an eye-witness. Photograph(left) and general arrangement drawing.
Boarders Away : An account of British India educational cruises edited by Mary Ollis. Published by: Longman Group, London 1973. (ISBN 0 582 32471 8).
By 1973 BI educational cruises had been underway for 11 years with the ships DUNERA, DEVONIA, NEVASA and UGANDA taking 40,000 to 50,000 British schoolchildren to sea each year. Written with the help of BI staff, chief education officers, teachers, and pupils, this book gives a brief history of BI’s educational cruising, with chapters on the ship’s company, planning a cruise, on board, visits ashore, etc. Foreword by Sir Ronald Gould, chairman of the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges, and contributors include Dame Kitty Anderson, Sir John Newsom and Sir John Wolfenden. 124 pp, 5 photo-plates.
Other name working under the BI until 1972
- The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
It is more than 60 years since William Mackinnon died but except in the Bay of Bengal area and on the Coast of India, the pattern of BI trading has remained largely unchanged.