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Supplementary resources for FIBIS Guide 2 - ''British Ships in Indian Waters: Their Owners, Crew and Passengers'' by Richard Morgan, available in the [httphttps://shopwww.fibis.org /store/ FIBIS Shop].
Links to FIBIS transcriptions and fibiwiki resources can be found below and will be updated as additions are made.
==Part I - HEICo Maritime Service==
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=199 East Indiamen - Crew lists]*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=859 East Indiamen warrants] transcribed from TNA HO 118/1*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=789&s_id=177 East Indiaman voyages 1816-1839] Summary of voyages, giving dates, destinations, names of Commanders, etc taken from IOR/L/Mil/9/97 and IOR/L/Mil/9/41-45.*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=386&format=1&st=0&np=9&tn=42 Indiaman paintings] from the National Maritime Museum collection, 42 pictures used with permission.*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=108 Arrival and Departure notices] from directories, almanacs etc*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=142 Passenger lists]*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=4 Embarkation records] for HM and HEIC army recruits
===Updates to the text - March 2014===
{{Template:RMaddition|text=[page 7] For those interested in what an East Indiaman looked like, a good model of HCS Falmouth is to be seen in the Docklands Museum, London, based, as I understand, on surviving detailed plans of the ship.
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[page 7] Christopher Biden who had just retired as an HEICo Commander published in 1830 ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I0YSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Naval+Discipline,+Subordination+contrasted+with+Insubordination,+etc&source=bl&ots=NRG5dPPyWQ&sig=HXCII40H2nmIDZmlJgqL8ZPPbRg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wLghU-bJM8WohAf8l4DIAQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Naval%20Discipline%2C%20Subordination%20contrasted%20with%20Insubordination%2C%20etc&f=false Naval Discipline, Subordination contrasted with Insubordination, etc.]'' [Google Books] London 1830. Most of the book consists of detailed examples of HCS Commanders dealing or failing to deal with insubordination/mutiny in the period approximately 1790-1830.
==Part II - Country Ships==
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=892 List of Free Merchants, Seafaring Men and other inhabitants of Bombay and Surrounds from 1720-80] from IOR O/5 series
===Updates to the text - March 2014===
==Part IV - Marine==
*[http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Ships_of_the_Bombay_Marine_and_Indian_Navy Ships of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy] taken from Charles Rathbone Low's ''History of the Indian Navy''
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=728&s_id=222 Officers of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy] derived from Charles Rathbone Low's ''History of the Indian Navy'' *[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=927&s_id=862 List of European Seamen in the HEIC Marine at Bombay and Surat 1766] from IOR O/5/31*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=985&s_id=862 List of European Seamen Dead, Run and Discharged since the 31st December 1764] from IOR O/5/31*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=451&s_id=137 Indian Navy family pension records] from IOR L/AG/23/18*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=189&s_id=39 List of Branch Pilots from 1847-1888], showing the date on which they joined the Service. Taken from Malcolm Beatties' ''On the Hooghly''.
===Updates to the text - March 2014===
==Part V - Commercial shipping==
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=872&s_id=261 Small ships arriving into Liverpool] Ships' Musters of vessels arriving into Liverpool transcribed from TNA record series BT98/85*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=417&s_id=177 South Australian mariners' tickets] 1897-1920
*[[IOR Marine records on LDS films]]
*[[Ship_types|Ship types]] - explanation of various ship types
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=792&s_id=177 Lists of Persons Saved or Lost wreck of the "Princess Amelia"] which caught fire off Cannanore on 5th April 1798
