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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:
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[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.
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# [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12617 Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century] by Montague Massey
# Beattie, Malcolm H. (1935). ''On The Hooghly''. Malcolm H Beattie, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. (1935)# Prinsep, James (1836). ''Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to The Journal Of The Asiatic Society. Part the Second. Chronological and Genealogical Tables'', page 160.# Labey, Capt G.T. and Brice, Capt R.K.H. (1970), ''The Bengal Pilot Service''. (National Maritime Museum , Ref: . THS/12/1-9)
