There are many travelers who go from one place to the other place by jet. Most of these are dram back to the days where people traveled in sailing ships. Mauritius which is located about five hundred and thirty miles east of the mainland of Madagascar which is in the Indian Ocean. The entire fascination that this place conjures up is created by the popular and rare craft of building model ships.
Mauritius is one of the places that institute a large scale production of, no not really ships that actually do sail in the sea, but of model ships.
These model ships are not just built in random. They are in fact faithful representations of the sail ships through history. These ships were only found formerly in museums and were quite inaccessible as they were expensive antique. Although now, things have changed. Now you can actually buy a good copy of most of the great ships in history.
The shop selling these models know that their produce would be bought by traveler , and that is why they have made sufficient protective packaging so that the models aren’t harmed in any way while you are taking them to and fro. The models can also be insured and sent to anywhere in the Europe and the united states for about forty dollars a square foot.
Some of the ships that are sold here in Mauritius are Santa Maria, Mayflower, the bounty and Admiral Nelsons Victory. Also there are many other ships that have long become a part of the history of Mauritius. The Saint Gerand was actually loaded off the northwest coast of this island in the year seventeen forty four. This French ship was recovered in the year nineteen hundred and sixty six. The Mahebourg currently rests as an antique in the naval museum of Mauritius.
Have you ever heard of the famous love story “Paul et virgine”, this was written by the famous Jacques Henry Bernardin de St Pierre. This love story ends tragically on the saint Gerand; when Virginia (the woman in the story), drowns in the sea while on her return from France to meet her lover Paul.
In both the seventeenth and eighteenth century , many pirates who , mostly were French corsairs were quite regularly terrorize and plunder and even loot the ships that were packed with spices that would return to Europe from the Orient.
When Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, this brought new peace to Europe and also to the faraway Isle de France. The British then Possessed and rebaptized Mauritius after it was originally owned by the Dutch Prince, Maurice of Nassau.
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