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Bengal Pilot Service

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L/MAR/C/762-763 Bengal Marine records of service
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’sV/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the Bengal Histories of Service. PUBLISHED WORKSBeattie ‘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: Appendix A comprises a list of serving Branch Pilots (1847-1888); 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); Appendix C comprises a list of men joining the Service (1893-1916)
== References ==
# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey
# On The Hooghly. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)
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