British Ships in Indian Waters

Supplementary resources for FIBIS Guide 2 - British Ships in Indian Waters: Their Owners, Crew and Passengers by Richard Morgan, available in the FIBIS Shop.

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

• IOR Marine records on LDS films
• 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