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*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'
**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society].
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books
*The Bengal Pilot Service in 1859. The author was aboard HMS Retribution [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026424196#page/n171/mode/2up ''Memories of the Sea'', page 151] by Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald 1913 Archive.org
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==External Links==
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has a section on [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbengal.htm Bengal Marine].
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]
===Individuals===
*[httphttps://www.quivis.co.uk/dum/indexindex_dum.html Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the Calcutta Port Commission. With Originally with scans and transcripts of many original documents, exploring the site is recommended, but pages of particular general interest include::*[httphttps://www.quivis.co.uk/dum/images/portrait/675x900/pilot.jpg Scan of pilot's certificate] for pilotage of the Hooghly.:*[httphttps://www.quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly/index_hooghly.html Some notes about the Introduction To HooghlyRiver Pilotage]:*[httphttps://www.quivis.co.uk/dum/hooghly/hooghly-pilotage1.html Hooghly Pilotage ca. 1910-16]:*[httphttps://www.quivis.co.uk/dum/dana/indexindex_dana.html Dana's ''Dictionary of Sea Terms'' 1841/51]Adapted from ''The Seaman's Friend...'' by R. H. Dana 1st ed. 1841, 6th edition 1851.
*[http://sayeedsjournal.wordpress.com/chapter-23-on-the-river-hooghly/ On the River Hooghly] by Khwaja Sayeed Shahabuddin (born 1923). He was a Leadsmen Apprentice with the Bengal Pilot Service for one year in 1946-1947, until he needed to wear glasses, which was not allowed.
===Historical books online===
*''On The Hooghly'' by M H Beattie 1935. [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.77306 Archive.org mirror version], from Digital Library of India.*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service inSeptember 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http:/handle/2015books.google.com/77306 books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship''On by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books *The Bengal Pilot Service in 1859. The Hooghlyauthor was aboard HMS Retribution [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026424196#page/n171/mode/2up ''Memories of the Sea'', page 151] by M H Beattie 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of IndiaAdmiral Penrose Fitzgerald 1913 Archive. org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77306 225565/page/n61/mode/2up ''An Unqualified Pilot''] page 57 ''Land And Sea Tales For Scouts And Guides'' by Rudyard Kipling 1923. Archive.org mirror . [http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html Transcribed version]. :An interesting and informative short story for younger readers depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly. The story was first published in 1895 and set in a time 'a good many years ago'. Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society].
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