Diamond Harbour

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See Imperial Gazetteer Volume 11 Page 340 and other pages

Diamond Harbour is about 50 miles(80km) downstream of Calcutta on the Hooghly River. It was a favourite anchorage of the East India Company’s ships in olden times. It suffered terribly in the cyclone of 1864, which swept away large numbers of its inhabitants

Further Information

See Calcutta Port and Docks - Railways for details of early proposals to make Wet Docks at Diamond Harbour