180 Tons of Ice. Four Months at Sea.

In 1833, they loaded about 180 tons of ice onto the Tuscany for India. No refrigerated hold. Roughly four months around Africa. How much of that ice would Rogers actually get ashore? Follow the cargo from Boston to Calcutta (now Kolkata), through its packing, inspections and tropical crossings. The original 1833 voyage report supplies the evidence for this unlikely delivery. More investigations:    • The Aha Department — Full Investigations   CHAPTERS 00:00 A cargo that keeps melting 00:44 Packing 180 tons 01:38 Into warmer waters 02:01 The July inspection 02:32 Around the Cape 03:16 Back into the tropics 03:42 The river and the landing 04:10 Opening the chamber 04:37 What reached Calcutta SOURCES 1833 report and published voyage log, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal II, pp. 491–494: https://archive.org/details/journalof... Tudor/partners and diary context, Susan S. Bean, “Cold Mine”: https://www.americanheritage.com/cold... Customs and trade context, Devika Shankar: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa... MEDIA CREDITS Tudor portrait, before 1864 — photographer unknown; public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=... Boston Harbor, 1843 — Robert Salmon/NGA; CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=... Garden Reach, c.1810 — Thomas Daniell; public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=... Mary Scott, c.1830 — Miles Walters; public domain: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~cmi/book... Ice-block photograph, c.1935 — NARA 285481; public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=... Wood — FWStudio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-wo... Bark — Eva Bronzini: https://www.pexels.com/photo/wood-chi... Dry grass — Natalya Sh: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-close-... Pexels material photographs: https://www.pexels.com/license/ Ice harvest, Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, 1919 — Prelinger Archives; public domain: https://archive.org/details/amateur_f... Photographs are cropped/composited/animated; archive excerpts are reencoded and muted. The Mary Scott painting supplies a transparent paper-cut map marker, not an authenticated Tuscany portrait. Later ice-harvest images illustrate methods. Packing and gauge views are qualitative reconstructions. The temperature sequence follows logged outside-air observations; the ship’s slower response is explained with hold-state labels. The route joins published fixes, not a continuous GPS track. SOUND & PRODUCTION CC0 Foley: stevielematt, tonymadethatt, sqeeeek, Q.K., SpaceJoe, Kingofgamers_cz, Breviceps, tix99. Trimmed/leveled; added sound design, not voyage audio. https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... Maps: Natural Earth (public domain); D3, Mike Bostock (ISC). Sun and CTA icons: Tabler/Paweł Kuna (MIT). Fonts: Inter and EB Garamond (SIL OFL). Script, collage and supplied ident: The Aha Department. Narration: Michael’s authorized voice, synthesized with ElevenLabs v4. Ident jingle/SFX: ElevenLabs-generated music/effects with supplied sound. #IceTrade #MaritimeHistory #TheAhaDepartment