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==FIBIS transcriptions and resources=====Part I - HEICo Maritime Service===
====Updates to the text - March 2014====
===Part II - Country Ships===
===Part III - Interlopers=====Updates to the text - March 2014===n/{{Template:RMaddition|text=[page 30, addition to footnote 26] Cotton & Fawcett (see p7) mention on pp253-4 the ''Seymour'' at this period – an interloper, either captured by the HEICo or more probably purchased under ascheme to buy up the stock and shipping of principal interlopers. }}
===Part IV - Marine===
===Part V - Commercial shipping===
===General===
finish RM additions, change formatting
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*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=199 East Indiamen - Crew lists]
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=859 East Indiamen warrants] transcribed from TNA HO 118/1
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=4 Embarkation records] for HM and HEIC army recruits
{{Template:RMaddition|text=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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*The Committee considered the reference of Court of the 20th Instant on the letter from Capt C B Gribble principal Owner of the Ship Princess Charlotte of Wales, stating that his own ill health obliges him to remain at home & presenting Mr Christopher Biden for Commander for the present Voyage and the Committee
*''Resolved'' To approve Captain Biden as Commander, he being fitly qualified according to the Court’s Regulation of 12th February 1768: and that in the event of Captain Gribble not being able to resume the command of the Princess Charlotte of Wales on her next Voyage, Captain Biden do then continue in Command of the Ship 22 December 1820 L/MAR/1/9
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[page 18] The Committee of Shipping Minutes (L/MAR/1/ – see p16) also covered pensions, gratuities and admissions to the Poplar Fund, etc. The beneficiaries are seldom named in the index to each volume.
'''Examples'''*It is ordered that Ellinor Thompson widd have £30 given her out of the Poors Box, and that it be Regist[…] That Abraham ffowler who Broke his Leag on Board ship Rochester have 40s pd by Capt Basse to him as the Companys Gratuity [1685]*''Resolved'' That this Committee are of opinion, that they be severally allowed the following Pensions from that Fund to commence from the 24th June last. :Vizt For Life:Ann Forder – Ships Cooks Widow £6 ” 0 Per Annum :: For One Year:Samuel Boyd Gunners Mate £5 ” 8::From the 29th September 1819:: For Life*[list of persons including]:Charlotte Ryan Seamans Widow for two children £1 ” 12 :George Christopher for the Orphan Son of Captn Henry Christopher :Till prescribed age each 33 . 6 – 8 Do:''etc''*This Committee are further of opinion that Mr Andrew Deeley 3d Mate: ” Mr Bellingsby Midshipman and: ” James Wilson Purser :are not within the regulations for the admission of Pensioners on the Poplar Fund. [1819]----[page 20] (Regarding example one) These are the daughters of John Palmer, head of the famous Calcutta Agency House, John Palmer & Co, which collapsed spectacularly in 1834 (Anthony Webster ''The Richest East India Merchant'', Woodbridge 2007).
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*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/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===
{{Template:RMaddition|text=[page 29] Christopher Biden’s ''Naval Discipline'' (see above re p7) includes country ship examples, one of which concerns his brother, William Henry Biden (Op. Cit. p676).
Many country ships ended up in the Australian Trade – see Ronald Parson [http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-sa1.htm ''Migrant Ships for South Australia''] 1988
Many directories are on Google Books
:'''Example'''
:''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register'' Vol 11 May 1821 on Google Books notes the departure of the ''Anna Robertson'' from Gravesend April 1821. Its arrival in Calcutta in Sept 1821 is picked up in the ''Bengal Directory'' 1821 Appx p70. (See our list of links to [[directories online]].) }}
*[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://search.fibis.org/frontis/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://search.fibis.org/frontis/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://search.fibis.org/frontis/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===
{{Template:RMaddition|text=[page 39]Maurice Packer's list (''Officers of the Bombay Marine'' Ts 2012) can be found at OIR 026.954.
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[page 45, alterations to footnote 40] Bholeo (there spelled Bhaliah”) is defined by Bishop Heber’s wife as:
:“A very nice covered … ten-oared boat with a comfortable room quite new and nicely fitted up..” (C H Cholmondeley ''The Heber Letters 1783-183''2 London 1950 p313).
The music may have been provided by some regimental band, but by the 20th century:
:“The Viceroy had his own orchestra which used to play most evenings, during dinner…” (Charles Allen ed ''Plain Tales from the Raj'' London 1975 p131). }}
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/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://search.fibis.org/frontis/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
