Bombay Marine

The Bombay Marine was the fighting navy of the East India Company in Asian waters, as opposed to its mercantile marine.

In 1830 the Bombay Marine was renamed the Indian Navy. The Navy was abolished in 1863, being replaced by a revived, non-combatant, Bombay Marine. In 1877 the revived Bombay Marine and the Bengal Marine were combined to form HM Indian Marine , which became the Royal Indian Marine in 1892 and the Royal Indian Navy in 1935.

FIBIS resources

• Officers of the Bombay Marine - 1802
• Officers of the Bombay Marine - 1830
• Officers of the Indian Navy 1858-1863

Related articles

• Indian Navy which includes details relating to WW1 and WW2
• Ships of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy
• Ship types

External links

Historical Books Online

• History of the Indian navy (1613-1863) Volume 1 by Charles Rathbone Low 1877. Covers the period 1613-1830 Volume 2. Covers the period 1831-1863
• And that reminds me 
being incidents of a life spent at sea, and in the Andaman Islands, Burma, Australia, and India, page 48 
by Stanley W. Coxon 1915 Archive.org. The author, probably born c late 1850s was temporarily appointed to the Royal Indian Marine early/mid 1880s and proceeded to the Andaman Islands

Other

• The East India Company’s Marine (Indian Marine) and its Successors through to the Royal Indian Navy (1613-1947) website of maritime researcher Len Barnett
• Photographs of a Royal Indian Marine sword Victorian Wars Forum post.
• "Somewhere between freedom and slavery: runaway slaves in Britain’s Indian Navy" 28 March 2014 British Library: Untold lives blog.