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Trying out simple tables for presentation of some of the lists (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table)
The Bengal Pilot Service was abolished on the 15th May, 1948. [4]
== Composition of the Pilot Service ==
This table shows the number of pilots of each rank in the service in 1853. (Source L/MAR/8/9)
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|Senior Branch Pilot||1
|-
|Branch Pilot||11
|-
|Senior Master||23
|-
|Master||7
|-
|Mate||30
|-
|Senior 2d Mate||12
|-
|Junior 2d Mate||12
|-
|Volunteer||46
|-
|Total Complement||142
|}
The following comprises extracts from my unpublished manuscript of records for Genealogists interested in India
L/MAR/8/1-20 1793-1880 Various lists of employees and volunteers in the Bengal Marine and Pilot Service
L/MAR/8/9 1853- Quarterly Returns of Europeans in their Order of Station in the Pilot Establishment
L/MAR/C/689 1794-1830 Appointments to Bengal Pilot Service
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|-
!Description!!Date!!IOR Shelf Mark!!LDS Film Ref.
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|Pilot service entries, A-M||1796-1858||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028925 Items 7-8
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|Pilot service entries, N-Z||1796-1858||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 1
|-
|Appointment, baptismal and other certificates of volunteers||1818-1844||L/MAR/8/1||FHL BRITISH Film 2028926 Item 2
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|Certificates of volunteers||1844-1855||||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028996
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|Certificates of volunteers||1855-1861||||VAULT BRITISH Film 2028997
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|Certificates and lists of European employees||1793-1852||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028998
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|European employees||1852-1869||||FHL BRITISH Film 2028999
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|European employees||1869-1880||||FHL BRITISH Film 2029000 Item 1
|}
== Index of Pilots ==
* [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=86&s_id=189 Appendices From M.H. Beattie]* Index to L/MAR/8/1 (in preparation)
== Published Works ==
