Wadia family

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The Wadia (Whit) family is an old Parsi family originally based in Surat. They were initially involved in shipbuilding. In 1736 Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia served the British East India Company for building docks and ships in Bombay, now called Mumbai. From then on they became associated with Mumbai, but many of them remained in Surat. By the 1840s the family was one of the leading forces in shipbuilding in Surat. At that point they had built over a hundred warships for the British and had trading networks around the world. This lead to Ardeshir Cursetji Wadia becoming the first Parsi to visit the United States in 1849.

An interesting fact is that the US National Anthem (Star Spangled Banner) was written in 1812 on a Wadia built British Navy ship, the HMS Minden.

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