British Ships in Indian Waters

Supplementary resources for FIBIS Guide 2 - British Ships in Indian Waters: Their Owners, Crew and Passengers.

Links to FIBIS transcriptions and fibiwiki resources can be found below and will be updated as additions are made.

FIBIS transcriptions and resources

Part I - HEICo Maritime Service

• East Indiamen - Crew lists
• East Indiamen warrants transcribed from TNA HO 118/1
• 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.
• Indiaman paintings from the National Maritime Museum collection, 42 pictures used with permission.
• Arrival and Departure notices from directories, almanacs etc
• Passenger lists
• Embarkation records for HM and HEIC army recruits

Part II - Country Ships

• List of Free Merchants, Seafaring Men and other inhabitants of Bombay and Surrounds from 1720-80 from IOR O/5 series

Part III - Interlopers

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Part IV - Marine

• Ships of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy taken from Charles Rathbone Low's History of the Indian Navy
• Officers of the Bombay Marine and Indian Navy derived from Charles Rathbone Low's History of the Indian Navy
• List of European Seamen in the HEIC Marine at Bombay and Surat 1766 from IOR O/5/31
• List of European Seamen Dead, Run and Discharged since the 31st December 1764 from IOR O/5/31
• Indian Navy family pension records from IOR L/AG/23/18
• List of Branch Pilots from 1847-1888, showing the date on which they joined the Service. Taken from Malcolm Beatties' On the Hooghly.

Part V - Commercial shipping

• Small ships arriving into Liverpool Ships' Musters of vessels arriving into Liverpool transcribed from TNA record series BT98/85
• South Australian mariners' tickets 1897-1920

General

• Ship types - explanation of various ship types
• Lists of Persons Saved or Lost wreck of the "Princess Amelia" which caught fire off Cannanore on 5th April 1798

links to wiki pages to be added (directories etc)