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Bengal Pilot Service

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b. [[The Percy-Smith Collection]] (MS 88/006)
Item (18) Bengal Marine ‘Particulars of certificates granted by the Government of Calcutta up to December 1902 to Masters, Mates and Engineers in Mercantile Marine’. These records are of particular interest to persons looking for River Pilots who were born in India who were in service in the 1890’s and at the turn of the twentieth century. The entries inlcude include the person’s name, date and place of birth , class of certificate, certificate number and its date of granting.
These records divide into:
Item (29) Index Cards : Bengal Medical (1740-1914, surnames A-H only); Bengal Orphans (1780-1840); Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilots (1700-1914)
The [[Percy-Smith Collection]] is not held in the main Caird Library of the Museum you need to request - access to the items must be requested a week or so in advance of your a vist.

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