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 shipping service supporting the company's trade with India and the Far East. It was in operation from 1600 to 1834.
• 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.
• Bengal Pilot Service. The Bengal Pilot Service was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between Calcutta and the Bay of Bengal.

Links

• The British Library IOR Maritime Service page
• Andrea Cordani's EIC Ships website
• A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company 1716-1810 By Charles Hardy, Horatio Charles Hardy
• A Journal of a voyage to the Cape of good Hope and Bombay in the Ship Sesostris by James Smith, 1829-1831
• Len Barnett’s British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more has sections on

• EIC- A realistic guide to what is available to those looking into the careers of seagoing servants (1600-1834) [1]
• Bombay Marine [2]
• Bengal Marine [3]