Dhunjeebhoy Rustomjee made his name in shipping

The slide rule shown here belonged to Dhunjeebhoy Rustomjee, who came from a fine line of Indian master ship builders in ancestry.

They go back to Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia, who advanced the Wadia shipbuilding dynasty in 1736, whe…

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