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<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
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==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
<br />
=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
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==== L/MAR/8 Series ====<br />
<br />
Most of these records have been microfilmed. The originals are fragile and slowly detoriating so viewing of the microfilms is recommended both for ease of use (especially making printed copies) and for conservation. Note that the hard copy microfilm index file on display at the British Library uses the old L/MAR/C numbering for these records and a translation has to be made using the concordance tables at the back of the L/MAR index file. For example, L/MAR/8/3 used to be L/MAR/C/768 and the microfilm index tells us that L/MAR/C/768 is on IOR NEG 35431. The new numbering is in a different order to the original. Some records are split across two films, for example L/MAR/8/2 is on IOR NEG 35430 and 35431. The following table provides a direct lookup of the film numbers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-3 provide the most detailed information about volunteers (new recruits). Note that where films are available they are not on the open shelves and have to be ordered using the online system.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!width="40%"|Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of ranks of volunteers||1838-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Lists of pilots giving dates of promotion etc., A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|List of pilots, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment||1836-1853||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1853-1862||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1862-1880||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1793-1833||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|Printed rules & Regulations||1827||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
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=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
* Pilots and pilot vessels contained in the Marine lists in civil publications such as the East India Register, see the list of [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Directories_online Directories]<br />
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== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
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===Individuals===<br />
*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/index.html Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/images/portrait/675x900/pilot.jpg Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly.html Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly-pilotage1.html Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/dana/index.html Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
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<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
<br />
==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
<br />
=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==== L/MAR/8 Series ====<br />
<br />
Most of these records have been microfilmed. The originals are fragile and slowly detoriating so viewing of the microfilms is recommended both for ease of use (especially making printed copies) and for conservation. Note that the hard copy microfilm index file on display at the British Library uses the old L/MAR/C numbering for these records and a translation has to be made using the concordance tables at the back of the L/MAR index file. For example, L/MAR/8/3 used to be L/MAR/C/768 and the microfilm index tells us that L/MAR/C/768 is on IOR NEG 35431. The new numbering is in a different order to the original. Some records are split across two films, for example L/MAR/8/2 is on IOR NEG 35430 and 35431. The following table provides a direct lookup of the film numbers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-3 provide the most detailed information about volunteers (new recruits).<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!width="40%"|Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of ranks of volunteers||1838-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Lists of pilots giving dates of promotion etc., A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|List of pilots, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment||1836-1853||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1853-1862||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1862-1880||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1793-1833||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|Printed rules & Regulations||1827||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
* Pilots and pilot vessels contained in the Marine lists in civil publications such as the East India Register, see the list of [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Directories_online Directories]<br />
<br />
== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
<br />
===Individuals===<br />
*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/index.html Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/images/portrait/675x900/pilot.jpg Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly.html Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly-pilotage1.html Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/dana/index.html Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
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[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
[[Category:Bengal Presidency]]<br />
[[Category:Naval and Maritime]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=32019Bengal Pilot Service2011-04-04T20:02:45Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Individuals */ All links fixed, external site appears to have been restructured, invalidating what was here before.</p>
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<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
<br />
==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
<br />
=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==== L/MAR/8 Series ====<br />
<br />
Most of these records have been microfilmed. The originals are fragile and slowly detoriating so viewing of the microfilms is recommended both for ease of use (especially making printed copies) and for conservation. Note that the hard copy microfilm index file on display at the British Library uses the old L/MAR/C numbering for these records and a translation has to be made using the concordance tables at the back of the L/MAR index file. For example, L/MAR/8/3 used to be L/MAR/C/768 and the microfilm index tells us that L/MAR/C/768 is on IOR NEG 35431. The new numbering is in a different order to the original. Some records are split across two films, for example L/MAR/8/2 is on IOR NEG 35430 and 35431. The following table provides a direct lookup of the film numbers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-3 provide the most detailed information about volunteers (new recruits).<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!width="40%"|Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of ranks of volunteers||1838-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Lists of pilots giving dates of promotion etc., A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|List of pilots, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment||1836-1853||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1853-1862||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1862-1880||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1793-1833||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|Printed rules & Regulations||1827||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
<br />
== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
<br />
===Individuals===<br />
*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/index.html Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/images/portrait/675x900/pilot.jpg Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly.html Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly-pilotage1.html Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/dana/index.html Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
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[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
[[Category:Bengal Presidency]]<br />
[[Category:Naval and Maritime]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Newspapers_and_journals_online&diff=31053Newspapers and journals online2011-02-21T13:26:54Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Allen's Indian Mail */</p>
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This page contains links to [[online books|online editions]] of historical [[newspapers]] and periodicals that are of use to the British India family historian.<br />
<br />
See also <br />
*[[Newspapers & magazines reading list]] <br />
*[[Directories]]<br />
*[[Military periodicals online]]<br />
<br />
==Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine==<br />
The following volumes are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.<br />
*''Alexander's East India Magazine, and Colonial And Commercial Journal Volume 7, January-June 1834''., Index computer page 6<br />
*''Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine January 1835''. Contents, computer page 14<br />
*''Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine April 1835''. Contents computer page 8<br />
*''Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine Volume 13, January-June 1837''. Contents, computer page 8<br />
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<br />
==Allen's Indian Mail==<br />
Where there are two volumes in a year, the index is generally in the first volume, although there is no index for 1860, or 1868<br />
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{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jrUOAAAAQAAJ Vol 1, '''1843''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jrUOAAAAQAAJ&pgPA257 Vol 1, '''1844''' from page 257]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YBwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 3, '''1845''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=0BwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 4, '''1846''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBYYAAAAYAAJ Vol 5, '''1847''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WhcYAAAAYAAJ Vol 6, '''1848''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=drYOAAAAQAAJ Vol 7, '''1849''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ Vol 8, '''1850''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=4BgYAAAAYAAJ Vol 9, '''1851''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=G7cOAAAAQAAJ Vol 10, '''1852''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VrcOAAAAQAAJ Vol 11, '''1853''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=grcOAAAAQAAJ Vol 12, '''1854''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=p7cOAAAAQAAJ Vol 13, '''1855''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=wrcOAAAAQAAJ Vol 14, '''1856''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JrgOAAAAQAAJ Vol 15, '''1857''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=o2dDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 16 '''1858''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=OGlDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 17, '''Jan-June 1859''']<br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=XGlDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 17, '''July-Dec 1859''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=amlDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 Vol 18, '''Jan-June 1860'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=nmlDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA501 Vol 18, '''July-Dec 1860''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=vGlDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 19, '''Jan-June 1861'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=1WlDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 19, '''July –Dec 1861''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=b2tDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 20, ''' 1862''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=hWtDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 21, '''Jan-June 1863'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=lWtDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA581 Vol 21, '''July -Dec 1863''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=RGxDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 22, '''Jan-June 1864'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=VmxDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA499 Vol 22, '''July-Dec 1864''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=Y2xDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol 23, '''Jan –June 1865'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=dGxDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA503 Vol 23, '''July-Dec 1865''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=imxDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 24 , '''Jan-June 1866'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=qmxDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA489 Vol 24, '''July-Dec 1866''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=wWxDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 25, '''Jan-June 1867'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=Am1DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA523 Vol 25, '''July-Dec 1867''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=DG1DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA639 Vol 26, '''July –Dec 1868''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gm1DAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 27, '''Jan-June 1869'''] <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=M2FDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 27, '''July –Dec 1869''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=cmFDAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vol 28, '''Jan-June 1870''']<br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=iGFDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA625 Vol 28, '''July-Dec 1870''']<br />
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==Asiatic Annual Register==<br />
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{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=xxcYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 1, '''1799''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YiQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= '''1799''' <small>(2nd ed)</small>]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VJBJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 2, '''1800''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8SEoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage Vol 3, '''1801''']<br />
||[http://books.google.com/books?id=JBkYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 4, '''1802''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=rBkYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 5, '''1803''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=zyIoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 6, '''1804''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=EiMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 7, '''1805''']<br />
||[http://books.google.com/books?id=qI1JAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 8, '''1806''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jxwYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= '''1806''' (pt 2)]<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WyMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 9, '''1807''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=tiMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 10, '''1808''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=axoYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 11, '''1809''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 12, '''1810-11''']<br />
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==Asiatic Journal==<br />
See the separate list of editions of the [[Asiatic Journal]].<br />
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<br />
==Calcutta Annual Register==<br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=26sEAAAAQAAJ 1821]<br />
<br />
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== Calcutta Christian Observer ==<br />
<br />
[http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0IIUubbbEppmDMSYKBJ&id=hq8OAAAAIAAJ Index to all available volumes].<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=hq8OAAAAIAAJ Vol 1, June-Dec '''1832''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=q7UOAAAAIAAJ Vol 2, Jan-Dec '''1833''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=3LYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 3, Jan-Dec '''1834''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=_bUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 4, Jan- Dec '''1835''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=27YOAAAAIAAJ Vol 5, Jan-Dec '''1836]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=uLYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 6, Jan-Dec '''1837''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=HLUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 7, Jan-Dec '''1838''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=qrUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 8, Jan –Dec '''1839''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=crYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 1, New Series, Jan-Dec '''1840''']<br />
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<br />
==Calcutta Gazette==<br />
*The ''Calcutta Gazette'' was one of the official newspapers of the Government of India and its provincial governments, where official information was ‘gazetted’. Available on the [[Online books# Digital Library of India|Digital Library of India]] website for the years 1846 and 1872 to post independence (broken series). These volumes may be read online, but the volumes are not searchable. Some volumes, 1846 and 1872- 1942 (broken series) are also available on the website "DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library" under the subject category [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in/dspace/items-by-subject?subject=GAZETTEERS Gazetteers] as searchable pdf files.<br />
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==Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register== <br />
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{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=sRkYAAAAYAAJ Vol 1-3, '''1830''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=7BkYAAAAYAAJ Vol 4-6, '''1830''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=OxoYAAAAYAAJ Vol 7-9, '''1830''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=9xoYAAAAYAAJ Vol 10-12, ''''1830''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=LxsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 13-16, '''1831''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=dBsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 17-20, '''1831''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=uxsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 21-24, '''1831''']<br />
|<small>n/a</small><br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=DBwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 25-28, '''1832''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=QxwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 29-32, '''1832''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=kxwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 33-36, '''1832''']<br />
|<small>n/a</small><br />
|}<br />
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==Calcutta Monthly Journal==<br />
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{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=px0YAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 2, ''' Jan-June 1836''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=_RwYAAAAYAAJ ''' July-Dec 1836''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=yBUYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 3, ''' Jan-June 1837''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=MBYYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 4, '''Jan-June 1838''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=TxcYAAAAYAAJ '''July-Dec 1838''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=xRcYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 5, '''Jan-June 1839''']<br />
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==Colonial and Asiatic review==<br />
Published in London from 1852-53. Was previously known as ''Simmond's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany'' (1844-49) and ''The Colonial Magazine and East India review'' (1849-52). Editions can be viewed by page on the [http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/issn/1460602X.html National Library of Australia's periodical site].<br />
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Google Books has:<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=TQoDAAAAIAAJ Vol I, '''Jan-Apr 1844''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=Fx_oKbNjfTwC&pg=PP11 Vol II, '''May-Aug 1844''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UVAQAAIAAJ Vol III, '''Sept-Dec 1844''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=IyxeU09oLz8C&pg=PR5 Vol IV, '''Jan-Apr 1845''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=oYUVAQAAIAAJ Vol V, '''May-Aug 1845''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=MaUNAAAAQAAJ Vol VI, '''Sept-Dec 1845''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=5YawWXLwzz4C&pg=PR1 Vol VII, '''Jan-Apr 1846''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=7y4H55r15eUC Vol VIII, '''Apr-Aug 1846]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=epJqE4mSfJ0C&pg=PR6 Vol IX, '''Sept-Dec 1846''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ Vol X, '''Jan-Apr 1847''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WeENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 Vol XVI, '''Jan-June 1849''' ]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=iuENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 Vol XVII, '''July-Dec 1849''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=I80OAAAAQAAJ Vol I, '''Jul-Dec 1852''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ss0OAAAAQAAJ Vol II, '''Jan-June 1853''']<br />
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==Colonial Magazine and Commercial Maritime Journal==<br />
Published in London between 1840-42, then under the title ''Fisher's Colonial Magazine and Commercial Maritime Journal'' from 1842-43. Editions can be viewed by page on the [http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/issn/14614243.html National Library of Australia's periodical site].<br />
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Google Books has:<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=3YsVAQAAIAAJ Vol I, '''Jan-Apr 1840''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=99Y5AAAAMAAJ Vol II, '''May-Aug 1840''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=F4YVAQAAIAAJ Vol III, '''Sept-Dec 1840''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=IIcVAQAAIAAJ Vol IV, '''Jan-Apr 1841''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=mIcVAQAAIAAJ Vol V, '''May-Aug 1841''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=5ocVAQAAIAAJ Vol VI, '''Sept-Dec 1841''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=QIgVAQAAIAAJ Vol VII, '''Jan-Apr 1842''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=CHkoAAAAYAAJ Vol III, '''May-Aug 1843''']<br />
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==Gazette of India==<br />
*The ''Gazette of India'' was the official newspaper of the Government of India, where official information was ‘gazetted’. Available on the [[Online books# Digital Library of India|Digital Library of India]] website for the years 1877-1918 (broken series). These volumes may be read online, but the volumes are not searchable. Some volumes 1877-1918 (broken series) are also available on the website "DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library" under the subject category [http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in/dspace/items-by-subject?subject=GAZETTEERS Gazetteers] as searchable pdf files.<br />
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<br />
==Oriental Magazine, and Calcutta Review== <br />
[http://books.google.com/books?id=0hkoAAAAYAAJ Volume 1, Jan-June 1823], [http://books.google.com/books?id=HRooAAAAYAAJ Volume 2, July-December 1823]<br />
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==Oriental Herald and Colonial Review==<br />
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{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=PBwYAAAAYAAJ Jan-April 1824]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=E6wEAAAAQAAJ May-Aug 1824]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=IqwEAAAAQAAJ Sept-Dec 1824]<br />
|<small>n/a</small><br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=NqwEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=Q6sEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=X68EAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKsEAAAAQAAJ Oct-Dec 1825]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=iKsEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=pasEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=w6sEAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=3asEAAAAQAAJ Oct-Dec 1826]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=9BsoAAAAYAAJ Jan-March 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=5qsEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=9KsEAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=pRoYAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1827]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=H6wEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=mhsYAAAAYAAJ Apr-June 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=_hsYAAAAYAAJ July-Sept 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WhwYAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1828]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VfMaAAAAYAAJ Jan-March 1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=n_MaAAAAYAAJ Apr-June1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=4_MaAAAAYAAJ July-Sept 1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=DfQaAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1829]<br />
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==Parbury's Oriental Herald and Colonial Intelligencer==<br />
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{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEMFAAAAQAAJ Vol 2, July-Dec '''1838''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=gEMFAAAAQAAJ Vol 3, Jan-June '''1839''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=m0MFAAAAQAAJ Vol 4, July-Dec '''1839''']<br />
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==Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review and Register==<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=QigJAAAAQAAJ Mar/Jun 1824]<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ASMJAAAAQAAJ Jan/Jun 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JSMJAAAAQAAJ Jul/Dec 1825]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=RxooAAAAYAAJ Jan/Jun 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgJAAAAQAAJ Jul/Dec 1826]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jSgJAAAAQAAJ Jan/Jun 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=lSEoAAAAYAAJ Jul/Dec 1827]<br />
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==Websites Accessible by participating Library Cardholders==<br />
There are five sites which contain online newspapers, journals, directories etc, published in India.<br />
<br />
The access is restricted to Library Card holders of participating libraries, including the following National Libraries (noting there is generally a residential requirement): [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/index.html Scotland], [http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=otherresourcesa-z Wales], [http://www.nli.ie/en/eresources.aspx Ireland], [http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/list/licenced/e Australia], [http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm State Library of NSW], and many University Libraries. At least one site, ECCO may also be accessed from the [[British Library]] Reading Rooms.<br />
<br />
The sites are<br />
=== Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)===<br />
===Eighteenth Century Journals, Newspapers and Periodicals c 1685-1815===<br />
===19th Century UK Periodicals===<br />
===The Making of the Modern World=== <br />
'''The Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850'''<br />
===Proquest Historical Newspapers, Times of India option===<br />
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For details about the publications published in India included in these five sites, refer [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]]<br />
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<br />
[[Category:Online books]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=29762Bengal Pilot Service2010-11-14T23:07:39Z<p>SimonHarding: /* L/MAR/8 Series */</p>
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<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
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== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
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== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
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The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
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== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
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==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
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'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
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=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
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Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==== L/MAR/8 Series ====<br />
<br />
Most of these records have been microfilmed. The originals are fragile and slowly detoriating so viewing of the microfilms is recommended both for ease of use (especially making printed copies) and for conservation. Note that the hard copy microfilm index file on display at the British Library uses the old L/MAR/C numbering for these records and a translation has to be made using the concordance tables at the back of the L/MAR index file. For example, L/MAR/8/3 used to be L/MAR/C/768 and the microfilm index tells us that L/MAR/C/768 is on IOR NEG 35431. The new numbering is in a different order to the original. Some records are split across two films, for example L/MAR/8/2 is on IOR NEG 35430 and 35431. The following table provides a direct lookup of the film numbers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-3 provide the most detailed information about volunteers (new recruits).<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!width="40%"|Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of ranks of volunteers||1838-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Lists of pilots giving dates of promotion etc., A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|List of pilots, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment||1836-1853||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1853-1862||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1862-1880||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns||1793-1833||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|Printed rules & Regulations||1827||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
<br />
== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
<br />
===Individuals===<br />
*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=38 Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=34%3Abiography&id=232%3Ahooghly-2&Itemid=64 Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=43 Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=84 Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=100 Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
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[[Category:Naval and Maritime]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=29730Bengal Pilot Service2010-11-13T20:05:13Z<p>SimonHarding: /* L/MAR/8 Series */</p>
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<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
<br />
==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
<br />
=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==== L/MAR/8 Series ====<br />
<br />
Most of these records have been microfilmed. The originals are fragile and slowly detoriating so viewing of the microfilms is recommended both for ease of use (especially making printed copies) and for conservation. Note that the hard copy microfilm index file on display at the British Library uses the old L/MAR/C numbering for these records and a translation has to be made using the concordance tables at the back of the L/MAR index file. For example, L/MAR/8/3 used to be L/MAR/C/768 and the microfilm index tells us that L/MAR/C/768 is on IOR NEG 35431. The new numbering is in a different order to the original. Some records are split across two films, for example L/MAR/8/2 is on IOR NEG 35430 and 35431. The following table provides a direct lookup of the film numbers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-3 provide the most detailed information about volunteers (new recruits).<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!width="40%"|Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of volunteers||1836-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment||1853-||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
<br />
== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
<br />
===Individuals===<br />
*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=38 Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=34%3Abiography&id=232%3Ahooghly-2&Itemid=64 Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=43 Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=84 Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=100 Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
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[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
[[Category:Bengal Presidency]]<br />
[[Category:Naval and Maritime]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=29729Bengal Pilot Service2010-11-13T20:03:56Z<p>SimonHarding: /* L/MAR/8 Series */</p>
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<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
<br />
==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
<br />
=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==== L/MAR/8 Series ====<br />
<br />
Most of these records have been microfilmed. The originals are fragile and slowly detoriating so viewing of the microfilms is recommended both for ease of use (especially making printed copies) and for conservation. Note that the hard copy microfilm index file on display at the British Library uses the old L/MAR/C numbering for these records and a translation has to be made using the concordance tables at the back of the L/MAR index file. For example, L/MAR/8/3 used to be L/MAR/C/768 and the microfilm index tells us that L/MAR/C/768 is on IOR NEG 35431. The new numbering is in a different order to the original. Some records are split across two films, for example L/MAR/8/2 is on IOR NEG 35430 and 35431. The following table provides a direct lookup of the film numbers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-3 provide the most detailed information about volunteers (new recruits).<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!width="30%"|Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of volunteers||1836-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment||1853-||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
<br />
== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
<br />
===Individuals===<br />
*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=38 Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=34%3Abiography&id=232%3Ahooghly-2&Itemid=64 Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=43 Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=84 Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=100 Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
[[Category:Bengal Presidency]]<br />
[[Category:Naval and Maritime]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=29728Bengal Pilot Service2010-11-13T19:54:04Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) */</p>
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<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
<br />
==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
<br />
=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==== L/MAR/8 Series ====<br />
<br />
Most of these records have been microfilmed. The originals are fragile and slowly detoriating so viewing of the microfilms is recommended both for ease of use (especially making printed copies) and for conservation. Note that the hard copy microfilm index file on display at the British Library uses the old L/MAR/C numbering for these records and a translation has to be made using the concordance tables at the back of the L/MAR index file. For example, L/MAR/8/3 used to be L/MAR/C/768 and the microfilm index tells us that L/MAR/C/768 is on IOR NEG 35431. The new numbering is in a different order to the original. Some records are split across two films, for example L/MAR/8/2 is on IOR NEG 35430 and 35431. The following table provides a direct lookup of the film numbers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-3 provide the most detailed information about volunteers (new recruits).<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of volunteers||1836-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment||1853-||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
<br />
== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
<br />
===Individuals===<br />
*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=38 Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=34%3Abiography&id=232%3Ahooghly-2&Itemid=64 Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=43 Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=84 Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=100 Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
[[Category:Bengal Presidency]]<br />
[[Category:Naval and Maritime]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=29727Bengal Pilot Service2010-11-13T19:38:28Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
<br />
==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
<br />
=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/9||1853-||Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||IOR NEG 35430/1||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||IOR NEG 35431||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of volunteers||1836-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||IOR NEG 35408||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/8||IOR NEG 35432/3||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/9||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/10||IOR NEG 35433||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/11||IOR NEG 35432||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/12||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/13||IOR NEG 35456||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/14||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/15||IOR NEG 35405||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/16||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/17||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/18||IOR NEG 35408||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/19||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/20||IOR NEG 35406/7||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/21||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/22||||<br />
|-<br />
|||||L/MAR/8/23||||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
<br />
== Published works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
<br />
===Individuals===<br />
*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=38 Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=34%3Abiography&id=232%3Ahooghly-2&Itemid=64 Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=43 Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=84 Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=100 Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
[[Category:Bengal Presidency]]<br />
[[Category:Naval and Maritime]]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=29726Bengal Pilot Service2010-11-13T19:06:03Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|300px|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
The '''Bengal Pilot Service''' was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between [[Calcutta]] and the Bay of Bengal. <br />
<br />
Amongst other contributions, this article contains extracts from FIBIS member [[User:Sage|Sage's]] unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India.<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
According to Massey,<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 ''Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century''] by Montague Massey</ref><br />
<blockquote><br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services."</blockquote><br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey<ref name=Brice> Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</ref> give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables,<ref>Prinsep, James (1836). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA160 ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables''], page 160. Google Books</ref> the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948.<ref name=Brice/><br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. <br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
(Source: IOR/L/MAR/8/9)<br />
<br />
==Records==<br />
=== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ===<br />
<br />
'''THS 12 ''The History of the Bengal Pilot Service'' by Brice & Labey'''<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
'''The Percy-Smith Collection (MS 88/006)'''<br />
<br />
The Percy-Smith Collection is not held in the main [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/ Caird Library] of the Museum - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of a visit.<br />
<br />
*Item (18) - Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
:These records divide into:<br />
:Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
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*Item (29) - Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840)<ref> The index is arranged alphabetically by name of orphan, with details such as date of birth, baptised, name of father and occasionally more details such as where apprenticed, etc. A cross reference card at the front of the index reads 'see also Alipore schools', which may possibly refer to further material in one of the Percy- Smith collections held in other institutions . "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum, Sanawar, Part II" [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] No 23, Spring 2010, by Maureen Evers, page 14</ref>; Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914). This link, from Len Barnett’s page Bengal Marine. (see below) shows the information available on one of the Bengal Marine [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/bengalsmith.htm index cards]. Note that there are index cards about other topics in the Percy Smith collection at the [[Society of Genealogists]]<br />
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=== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ===<br />
There are many records of the India Office at the [[British Library]] that pertain to the Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service. <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on [[LDS]] microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155.<br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"<br />
!Shelf Mark!!Dates!!Description<br />
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|L/AG/20 & 21 ||1814 - Post 1947|| Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
|-<br />
|L/AG/21/9/151-157||1920-1968||Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
|-<br />
|L/E/6-7 ||1880-1924|| Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/1-20||1793-1880||Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/8/9||1853-||Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/689||1794-1830||Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/704 #||1858-61||Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/755-756 #||1848-60||Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/760-761 #||1824-64||Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/762-763||||Bengal Marine records of service<br />
|-<br />
|L/MAR/C/855 #||1821||Seamen in the Bengal marine who have claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
|-<br />
|V/12||1896-1926||Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
|}<br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!IOR Film Ref.!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
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|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||IOR NEG 35410||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1858||L/MAR/8/2||||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
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|Certificates of volunteers||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/3||||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Nominations||1858-1861||L/MAR/8/4||||<br />
|-<br />
|List of volunteers||1836-1861||L/MAR/8/5||||<br />
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|Pilot service entries, A-M||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/6?||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
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|Pilot service entries, N-Z||1796-1858||L/MAR/8/7?||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
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|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
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|European employees||1869-1880||||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
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|}<br />
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=== Society of Genealogists ===<br />
Information available at the [[Society of Genealogists]]:<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ''Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service''. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
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* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie] on FIBIS Search (see details below)<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
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== Published works ==<br />
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Beattie ''On The Hooghly'' (1935)<ref>Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.</ref>: This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
:Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
:Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
:Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references /><br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].<br />
*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'<br />
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society]. <br />
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books <br />
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge<br />
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]<br />
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===Individuals===<br />
*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=38 Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include:<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=34%3Abiography&id=232%3Ahooghly-2&Itemid=64 Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=43 Some notes about the Hooghly]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=84 Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910]<br />
:*[http://www.quivis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=100 Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]<br />
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[[Category:Bengal Presidency]]<br />
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'''Calcutta''' (present day '''Kolkata''') is a large city in north-east India. Calcutta was the headquarters of the Government of the [[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal Presidency]]. It was also the capital of British India until [[Delhi]] became the capital on 12th December 1911. The city had a large European mercantile community.<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
[[Battle of Calcutta]] 1757<br> [[:Category:3rd Carnatic War|3rd Carnatic War]]<br />
<br />
== Spelling Variants ==<br />
Modern name: Kolkata<br><br />
Variants: Calcutta<br><br />
<br />
== Location ==<br />
Calcutta is now known as Kolkata in modern day India and is situated at 22°33′N, 88°20′E in the Ganges Delta. <br />
<br />
==Places of interest==<br />
=== The Maidan ===<br />
The site of [[Fort William]], the Maidan was (and still is) the centre of Calcutta. It was bounded on the west side by the Hooghly River and the Strand Road, and on the east side by Chowringhi Road. Government House, the Governor's residence, was at the north end of the Maidan and Belvedere, the residence of the Lieutenent-Governor of Bengal, was near the southern end.<br />
<br />
=== Eden Gardens===<br />
The Eden Gardens were started by Lord Aukland's sisters and are beautifully laid out. They were the main gathering place of Calcutta Society in the time of the British Raj. They are also the home of India's oldest cricket ground, the Calcutta Cricket Club, and have a lake which was the home of the Rowing Club. Beside the lake is a Burmese Pagoda brought from Prome and set up in 1856. There were many statues in the Gardens.<br />
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==Churches and missions==<br />
'''Anglican'''<br />
*St James Church - see [http://members.fibis.org/archive/J5.pdf FIBIS Journal 5], ''The Man Who Built St James Calcutta''<br />
*St John's Cathedral Church - consecrated 1787<br />
*[[St Paul's Cathedral]] - completed in 1847<br />
*St Peter's Church, [[Fort William]] - built 1828<br />
*'Old' Mission Church - see article in [http://members.fibis.org/archive/J7.pdf FIBIS Journal 7], includes a list of graves<br />
*St Stephen's, Kidderpore<br />
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'''Roman Catholic'''<br />
*RC Cathedral (Virgin Mary of the Rosary) - built 1797<br />
*St Patrick's Chapel, [[Fort William]] - built 1857<br />
*St Theresa - built 1893<br />
*St Thomas' Church - begun in 1841, adjacent to the Convent of Our Lady of Loreto<br />
<br />
'''Other denominations'''<br />
*St Andrew's Church of Scotland - opened 1818<br />
*Greek Church - established 1780<br />
*Holy Church of Nazareth ([[Armenian]]) - built in 1724. Dr. Reuben Khachaturyan/Liz Chater have transcribed all the baptisms at this church. They can be viewed on the [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=195&s_id=126 FIBIS database]. Liz also has many photos of graves at the Nazereth Church on [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chaterfamilytree/nazareth_church.htm her website].<br />
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'''Missions'''<br />
*Church Mission Society<br />
*Free Church of Scotland - started in 1830<br />
*London Missionary Society<br />
*Oxford Mission - Church of England<br />
*Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (Anglican)<br />
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===Non-Christian places of worship===<br />
As well as the temples and mosques that served the general Indian populace, Calcutta also housed:<br />
*Parsi temple<br />
*Synagogue<br />
*Chinese temple<br />
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===Cemeteries===<br />
See [[Cemeteries in Calcutta]].<br />
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==Education==<br />
''The Educational Establishments of Calcutta Past and Present''. Article in the Calcutta Review Volume 13, January-June 1850, page 442 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-8KgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA442 Google Books]<br> <br />
'''Colleges'''<br />
*Bengal School of Art<br />
*Bishop's College, Circular Road - run by the Oxford Mission<br />
*Calcutta Medical College - formerly Bengal Medical College, founded 1835<br />
*Doveton College<br />
*Presidency College<br />
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'''Schools'''<br />
*La Martiniere School - established 1836<br />
*St James' School - founded by Bishop Cotton in 1864<br />
*St Lawrence High School<br />
*St Thomas School, Kidderpore - founded 1789<br />
*St. Xavier's Collegiate School - founded by the Jesuits in 1860<br />
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==Economy and business==<br />
*[[Calcutta Businesses in 1933]]<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
=====Encyclopedia entries=====<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata Kolkata] Wikipedia<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kolkata History of Kolkata] Wikipedia<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidan_(Kolkata) Maidan (Kolkata)] Wikipedia<br />
*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Calcutta Calcutta] 1911 LovetoKnow<br />
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=====Maps=====<br />
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/calcuttamaps/calcuttamaps.html Calcutta Maps 1756,1839,1847,1883] Columbia University<br />
*[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~21006~530098:Calcutta--Published-under-the-super Calcutta Map 1842] David Rumsey Collection<br />
*[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&vps=1&jsv=156c&sll=22.570526,88.351815&sspn=0.00959,0.019312&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&geocode=FWZuWAEdd1NEBQ&split=0 Kolkata, Google Maps] Map with many buildings marked<br />
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=====Guides and directories=====<br />
See the [[Directories reading list]] for links to many directories with information on Calcutta.<br />
*''Thacker's Guide to Calcutta'' (1906) by Rev W.K. Firminger a noted historian. This book gives the historical background of Calcutta, area by area. A free download is available from [http://www.archive.org/details/thackersguidetoc00firm archive.org]<br />
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=====Other=====<br />
*''Calcutta in the Olden Times-Its Localities'' Article in Calcutta Review Vol 18, July-Dec 1852, p 275 ([http://books.google.com/books?id=cQc2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA275 Google Books])<br />
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*''Calcutta in the Olden Times-Its People'' Article in Calcutta Review Vol 35, Sept-Dec 1860, p 164 ([http://books.google.com/books?id=8DMYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164 Google Books])<br />
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*Catholic Institutions in Calcutta c 1881 from ''Indian Gods, Sages, and Cities'' by C Cesary Limited View Google Books 1987 [http://books.google.com/books?id=OJ_CknHdCbUC&pg=PA172 page 172] reprint of original published 1881 <br />
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*[http://members.lycos.co.uk/calcutta1940s/ Calcutta 1940's] Oral history site<br />
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*Photos taken by [http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/calcutta1947/album1.html G.I.s in Calcutta 1947]<br />
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[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Bengal Presidency]]<br />
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==Allen's Indian Mail==<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=0BwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 4, '''1846''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=drYOAAAAQAAJ Vol 7, '''1849''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ Vol 8, '''1850''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=4BgYAAAAYAAJ Vol 9, '''1851''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=G7cOAAAAQAAJ Vol 10, '''1852''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=grcOAAAAQAAJ Vol 12, '''1854''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=wrcOAAAAQAAJ Vol 14, '''1856''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JrgOAAAAQAAJ Vol 15, '''1857'''] <br />
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==Asiatic Annual Register==<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YiQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= '''1799''' <small>(2nd ed)</small>]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VJBJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 2, '''1800''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=rBkYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 5, '''1803''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=zyIoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 6, '''1804''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=EiMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 7, '''1805''']<br />
||[http://books.google.com/books?id=qI1JAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 8, '''1806''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jxwYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= '''1806''' (pt 2)]<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WyMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 9, '''1807''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=tiMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 10, '''1808''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=axoYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 11, '''1809''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 12, '''1810-11''']<br />
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== Calcutta Christian Observer ==<br />
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[http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0IIUubbbEppmDMSYKBJ&id=hq8OAAAAIAAJ Index to all available volumes].<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=q7UOAAAAIAAJ Vol 2, Jan-Dec '''1833''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=3LYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 3, Jan-Dec '''1834''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=_bUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 4, Jan- Dec '''1835''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=27YOAAAAIAAJ Vol 5, Jan-Dec '''1836]<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=uLYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 6, Jan-Dec '''1837''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=HLUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 7, Jan-Dec '''1838''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=qrUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 8, Jan –Dec '''1839''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=crYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 1, New Series, Jan-Dec '''1840''']<br />
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==Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register== <br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=7BkYAAAAYAAJ Vol 4-6, '''1830''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=OxoYAAAAYAAJ Vol 7-9, '''1830''']<br />
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|[http://books.google.com/books?id=LxsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 13-16, '''1831''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=dBsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 17-20, '''1831''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=uxsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 21-24, '''1831''']<br />
|<small>n/a</small><br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=DBwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 25-28, '''1832''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=QxwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 29-32, '''1832''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=kxwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 33-36, '''1832''']<br />
|<small>n/a</small><br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Calcutta Monthly Journal==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=px0YAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 2, '''1836''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=yBUYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 3, '''1837''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=MBYYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 4, '''1838''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=xRcYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 5, '''1839''']<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==East-India Register==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=x_8nAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA493&dq=east+india+register+1819 1819]<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=zwYLAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1842]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=L3QIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3&dq=%22east+india+register%22&lr 1845]<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ 1847]<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=KgkoAAAAYAAJ 1849]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VTUoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1850]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=FxkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1853]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WRkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA7-IA3,M1 1854]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=lhkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1855]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=2hkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1856]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JBooAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22east+india+register%22 1857]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Oriental Herald and Colonial Review==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=PBwYAAAAYAAJ Jan-April 1824]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=E6wEAAAAQAAJ May-Aug 1824]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=IqwEAAAAQAAJ Sept-Dec 1824]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=NqwEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=Q6sEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=X68EAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKsEAAAAQAAJ Oct-Dec 1825]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=iKsEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=pasEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=w6sEAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=3asEAAAAQAAJ Oct-Dec 1826]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=5qsEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=9KsEAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=pRoYAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1827]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=H6wEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=mhsYAAAAYAAJ Apr-June 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=_hsYAAAAYAAJ July-Sept 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WhwYAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1828]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VfMaAAAAYAAJ Jan-March 1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=n_MaAAAAYAAJ Apr-June1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=4_MaAAAAYAAJ July-Sept 1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=DfQaAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1829]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Parbury's Oriental Herald and Colonial Intelligencer==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEMFAAAAQAAJ Vol 2, July-Dec '''1838''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=gEMFAAAAQAAJ Vol 3, Jan-June '''1839''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=m0MFAAAAQAAJ Vol 4, July-Dec '''1839''']<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review and Register==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=QigJAAAAQAAJ Mar/Jun 1824]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ASMJAAAAQAAJ Jan/Jun 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JSMJAAAAQAAJ Jul/Dec 1825]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=RxooAAAAYAAJ Jan/Jun 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgJAAAAQAAJ Jul/Dec 1826]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jSgJAAAAQAAJ Jan/Jun 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=lSEoAAAAYAAJ Jul/Dec 1827]<br />
|}</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Directories_online&diff=14186Directories online2009-07-26T16:10:32Z<p>SimonHarding: /* East-India Register */ add 1819 edition in google books</p>
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<div>{| align="right"<br />
| __TOC__<br />
|}<br />
This page is supplementary to the [[Directories reading list]]. It contains links to online editions of directories detailed in the reading list, where multiple editions are available.<br />
<br />
See also the seperate list of editions of the [[Asiatic Journal]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Allen's Indian Mail==<br />
<br />
[http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:000p7M1Oz0fL6ZAiswV&id=axgYAAAAYAAJ Index to all available editions].<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jrUOAAAAQAAJ Vol 1, '''1843''']<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YBwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 3, '''1845''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=0BwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 4, '''1846''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZBYYAAAAYAAJ Vol 5, '''1847''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WhcYAAAAYAAJ Vol 6, '''1848''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=drYOAAAAQAAJ Vol 7, '''1849''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ Vol 8, '''1850''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=4BgYAAAAYAAJ Vol 9, '''1851''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=G7cOAAAAQAAJ Vol 10, '''1852''']<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=grcOAAAAQAAJ Vol 12, '''1854''']<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=wrcOAAAAQAAJ Vol 14, '''1856''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JrgOAAAAQAAJ Vol 15, '''1857'''] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Asiatic Annual Register==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=xxcYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 1, '''1799''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YiQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= '''1799''' <small>(2nd ed)</small>]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VJBJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 2, '''1800''']<br />
|<br />
||[http://books.google.com/books?id=JBkYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 4, '''1802''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=rBkYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 5, '''1803''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=zyIoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 6, '''1804''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=EiMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 7, '''1805''']<br />
||[http://books.google.com/books?id=qI1JAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 8, '''1806''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jxwYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= '''1806''' (pt 2)]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WyMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 9, '''1807''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=tiMoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 10, '''1808''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=axoYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 11, '''1809''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN04018676&lr= Vol 12, '''1810-11''']<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
== Calcutta Christian Observer ==<br />
<br />
[http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0IIUubbbEppmDMSYKBJ&id=hq8OAAAAIAAJ Index to all available volumes].<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=hq8OAAAAIAAJ Vol 1, June-Dec '''1832''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=q7UOAAAAIAAJ Vol 2, Jan-Dec '''1833''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=3LYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 3, Jan-Dec '''1834''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=_bUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 4, Jan- Dec '''1835''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=27YOAAAAIAAJ Vol 5, Jan-Dec '''1836]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=uLYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 6, Jan-Dec '''1837''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=HLUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 7, Jan-Dec '''1838''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=qrUOAAAAIAAJ Vol 8, Jan –Dec '''1839''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=crYOAAAAIAAJ Vol 1, New Series, Jan-Dec '''1840''']<br />
|}<br />
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<br />
==Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register== <br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=sRkYAAAAYAAJ Vol 1-3, '''1830''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=7BkYAAAAYAAJ Vol 4-6, '''1830''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=OxoYAAAAYAAJ Vol 7-9, '''1830''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=9xoYAAAAYAAJ Vol 10-12, ''''1830''']<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=LxsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 13-16, '''1831''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=dBsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 17-20, '''1831''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=uxsYAAAAYAAJ Vol 21-24, '''1831''']<br />
|<small>n/a</small><br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=DBwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 25-28, '''1832''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=QxwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 29-32, '''1832''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=kxwYAAAAYAAJ Vol 33-36, '''1832''']<br />
|<small>n/a</small><br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Calcutta Monthly Journal==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=px0YAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 2, '''1836''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=yBUYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 3, '''1837''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=MBYYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 4, '''1838''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=xRcYAAAAYAAJ Third Series Vol 5, '''1839''']<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==East-India Register==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=x_8nAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA493&dq=east+india+register+1819]<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=zwYLAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1842]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=L3QIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3&dq=%22east+india+register%22&lr 1845]<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ 1847]<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=KgkoAAAAYAAJ 1849]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VTUoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1850]<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=FxkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1853]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WRkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA7-IA3,M1 1854]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=lhkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1855]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=2hkoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage 1856]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JBooAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22east+india+register%22 1857]<br />
|<br />
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|}<br />
<br />
==Oriental Herald and Colonial Review==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=PBwYAAAAYAAJ Jan-April 1824]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=E6wEAAAAQAAJ May-Aug 1824]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=IqwEAAAAQAAJ Sept-Dec 1824]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=NqwEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=Q6sEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=X68EAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKsEAAAAQAAJ Oct-Dec 1825]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=iKsEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=pasEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=w6sEAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=3asEAAAAQAAJ Oct-Dec 1826]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=5qsEAAAAQAAJ Apr-June 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=9KsEAAAAQAAJ July-Sept 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=pRoYAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1827]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=H6wEAAAAQAAJ Jan-March 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=mhsYAAAAYAAJ Apr-June 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=_hsYAAAAYAAJ July-Sept 1828]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=WhwYAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1828]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=VfMaAAAAYAAJ Jan-March 1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=n_MaAAAAYAAJ Apr-June1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=4_MaAAAAYAAJ July-Sept 1829]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=DfQaAAAAYAAJ Oct-Dec 1829]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Parbury's Oriental Herald and Colonial Intelligencer==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEMFAAAAQAAJ Vol 2, July-Dec '''1838''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=gEMFAAAAQAAJ Vol 3, Jan-June '''1839''']<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=m0MFAAAAQAAJ Vol 4, July-Dec '''1839''']<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review and Register==<br />
<br />
{|cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1"<br />
|<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=QigJAAAAQAAJ Mar/Jun 1824]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=ASMJAAAAQAAJ Jan/Jun 1825]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=JSMJAAAAQAAJ Jul/Dec 1825]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=RxooAAAAYAAJ Jan/Jun 1826]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=YSgJAAAAQAAJ Jul/Dec 1826]<br />
|-<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=jSgJAAAAQAAJ Jan/Jun 1827]<br />
|[http://books.google.com/books?id=lSEoAAAAYAAJ Jul/Dec 1827]<br />
|}</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10365Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-22T00:48:16Z<p>SimonHarding: Trying out simple tables for presentation of some of the lists (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table)</p>
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<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==<br />
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. (Source L/MAR/8/9)<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|Senior Branch Pilot||1<br />
|-<br />
|Branch Pilot||11<br />
|-<br />
|Senior Master||23<br />
|-<br />
|Master||7<br />
|-<br />
|Mate||30<br />
|-<br />
|Senior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Junior 2d Mate||12<br />
|-<br />
|Volunteer||46<br />
|-<br />
|Total Complement||142<br />
|}<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/9 1853- Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!LDS Film Ref.<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, A-M||1796-1858||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8<br />
|-<br />
|Pilot service entries, N-Z||1796-1858||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1<br />
|-<br />
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1855||||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates of volunteers||1855-1861||||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997<br />
|-<br />
|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1852-1869||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999<br />
|-<br />
|European employees||1869-1880||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10364Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-21T22:55:37Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|thumb|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10363Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-21T22:48:37Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg|Image:PilotsPass_thumb.jpg|Pilot's Pass c.1890s]]<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=File:PilotsPass_thumb.jpg&diff=10362File:PilotsPass thumb.jpg2009-02-21T22:46:40Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10361Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-21T22:45:09Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass_thumb.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=File:PilotsPass_thumb.JPG&diff=10360File:PilotsPass thumb.JPG2009-02-21T22:41:57Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>See Image:PilotsPass.jpg for details.</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=File:PilotsPass_thumb.JPG&diff=10359File:PilotsPass thumb.JPG2009-02-21T22:14:43Z<p>SimonHarding: See PilotsPass.jpg for details.</p>
<hr />
<div>See PilotsPass.jpg for details.</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10358Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-21T20:29:13Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10357Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-21T20:28:26Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<img src="PilotsPass.jpg" height=234 width=230><br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10344Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-21T14:02:51Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10343Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-21T14:01:20Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:PilotsPass.jpg]]<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=User:SimonHarding&diff=10342User:SimonHarding2009-02-21T13:59:51Z<p>SimonHarding: New page: FIBIS member since 2007. Currently researching Bengal Pilot Service and contributing relevant material to corresponding section of FIBIwiki.</p>
<hr />
<div>FIBIS member since 2007. Currently researching Bengal Pilot Service and contributing relevant material to corresponding section of FIBIwiki.</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=File:PilotsPass.jpg&diff=10341File:PilotsPass.jpg2009-02-21T13:56:16Z<p>SimonHarding: Bengal Pilot Service: Pilot's Pass. Original size approx 7.5 cm.
Image Copyright Simon Harding 2009. Permission granted for use on FIBIwiki.</p>
<hr />
<div>Bengal Pilot Service: Pilot's Pass. Original size approx 7.5 cm.<br />
Image Copyright Simon Harding 2009. Permission granted for use on FIBIwiki.</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10306Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-19T23:41:37Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Society of Genealogists */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children.<br />
<br />
== Index of Pilots ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10211Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-19T14:54:34Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
[1669 ...] This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. National Maritime Museum, Ref. THS/12/1-9</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10210Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-19T14:50:11Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
== History of the Bengal Pilot Service ==<br />
<br />
Brice and Labey [4] give a date of 1651 for the foundation of the service, but according to James Prinsep's Chronological Tables [3], the service dates back to 1669:<br />
<blockquote><br />
This year also were received orders from home, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down. Thus originated the Bengal Pilot Service.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables, page 160.<br />
# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. (National Maritime Museum Ref: THS/12/1-9)</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10209Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-19T14:16:10Z<p>SimonHarding: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
<br />
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
<br />
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
<br />
Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
<br />
Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
<br />
L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
<br />
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
<br />
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
<br />
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
<br />
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
<br />
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
<br />
<br />
== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
<br />
Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Published Works ==<br />
<br />
Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
<br />
Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
<br />
Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables, page 160.</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=10208Bengal Pilot Service2009-02-19T14:10:21Z<p>SimonHarding: /* References */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Occupations]] <br />
<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
<br />
According to Massey [1],<br />
<br />
"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
<br />
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Geneaolgists interested in India<br />
<br />
<br />
== National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) ==<br />
<br />
<br />
a. THS 12 ‘The History of the Bengal Pilot Service’ by Brice & Labey.<br />
<br />
This is a unique unpublished history of the Bengal Pilot Service in the Historical Manuscripts Collection of the [[National Maritime Museum]]. It covers a wide range of aspects to do with the service and its employee's e.g. Appendix G ‘Obituaries’ comprises information from various sources for men of the Pilot service and their families. <br />
<br />
b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)<br />
<br />
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting. <br />
<br />
These records divide into:<br />
<br />
Colonial Certificates of competency; Local (Foreign Trade) Certificates of competency; <br />
Local (Home Trade) Certificates of competency; Local Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Service; Local (Inland) Certificates of Competency <br />
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Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914) <br />
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The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request access to the items a week or so in advance of your vist.<br />
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== Asia, Pacific & Africa Collection, British Library (India Office) ==<br />
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Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service <br />
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Records marked (#) should appear on LDS microfilms: 2028922 - 25; 2029155<br />
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L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Includes records of leave and service pensions<br />
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L/E/6-7 1880-1924 Pilot service recruitment information for this period contained within these papers.<br />
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L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service <br />
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L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service<br />
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L/MAR/C/704# 1858-61 Indian Navy, Bengal pilots<br />
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L/MAR/C/755-756# 1848-60 Europeans in the service of the Bengal marine<br />
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L/MAR/C/760-761# 1824-64 Bengal marine civil and marine casualties <br />
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L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service<br />
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L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have<br />
claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s<br />
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V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the<br />
Bengal Histories of Service.<br />
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L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service<br />
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155<br />
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L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK<br />
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== Society of Genealogists ==<br />
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Bullock’s ‘Directory of Non Official Europeans in India (1780-1820) – lists of Europeans and Anglo-Indians not in the King’s Service’. The information extracted from the East India Register and similar publications for Bengal.. Includes a number of Free Mariners/ Country Traders/ Free Merchants, Indigo Planters and River Pilots. However persons in many other professions are included, also some women and children. <br />
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== Published Works ==<br />
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Beattie ‘On The Hooghly’ (1935): This is a personal account of the Hooghly Pilot Service, the author served 1878-1913. Of particular interest to family Historians are the appendices: <br />
Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888) <br />
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Appendix B comprises a list of men joining the Service as Licensed Pilot or Covenanted Pilots (1858-1876) and men who joined the service as recruits from the training ships Worcester and Conway (1877-1893) <br />
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Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)<br />
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== References ==<br />
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# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)<br />
# Prinsep, James (1836). Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables, page 160.</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=857Bengal Pilot Service2007-06-11T15:53:27Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
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<div>According to Massey [1],<br />
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"'''THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB'''<br />
Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "<br />
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== References ==<br />
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# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey<br />
# On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Pilot_Service&diff=856Bengal Pilot Service2007-06-11T15:33:03Z<p>SimonHarding: New page: == References == On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)</p>
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<div>== References ==<br />
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On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Maritime_Service&diff=855Maritime Service2007-06-11T15:19:41Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
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The East India Company Maritime Services could be divided into three main categories:<br />
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* [[EIC Mercantile Marine]]. The Mercantile Marine was the principal merchant shipping service supporting the company's trade with India and the Far East. It was in operation from 1600 to 1834.<br />
* [[Bombay Marine]]. The Bombay Marine was the fighting navy of the EIC. In the later nineteenth century and twentieth century it was renamed several times, ultimately becoming the Royal Indain Navy in 1935.<br />
* [[Bengal Pilot Service]]. The Bengal Pilot Service was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between Calcutta and the Bay of Bengal.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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* [http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familymaritime.html The British Library IOR Maritime Service page]<br />
* [http://www.eicships.info/index.html Andrea Cordani's EIC Ships website]</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Maritime_Service&diff=854Maritime Service2007-06-11T15:12:08Z<p>SimonHarding: New page: == Maritime Service == The East India Company Maritime Services could be divided into three main categories: * EIC Mercantile Marine. The Mercantile Marine was the principal merchant...</p>
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<div>== Maritime Service ==<br />
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The East India Company Maritime Services could be divided into three main categories:<br />
<br />
* [[EIC Mercantile Marine]]. The Mercantile Marine was the principal merchant shipping service supporting the company's trade with India and the Far East. It was in operation from 1600 to 1834.<br />
* [[Bombay Marine]]. The Bombay Marine was the fighting navy of the EIC. In the later nineteenth century and twentieth century it was renamed several times, ultimately becoming the Royal Indain Navy in 1935.<br />
* [[Bengal Pilot Service]]. The Bengal Pilot Service was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between Calcutta and the Bay of Bengal.</div>SimonHardinghttps://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=853Main Page2007-06-11T14:43:10Z<p>SimonHarding: </p>
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