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In 1830 the [[Bombay Marine]] was renamed the '''Indian Navy''', based at Bombay. The Indian Navy, a combatant force, co-operated with the [[Royal Navy]] in policing Asian waters and also carried out regular marine surveys. In 1863 it was disbanded and replaced by two non-combatant marine services based in Bombay and Bengal respectively. In 1877 it was decided to combine the Bombay and Bengal Marines into a new combatant service entitled HM Indian Marine, with Western (Bombay) and Eastern (Calcutta) Divisions - HM Indian Marine was renamed the Royal Indian Marine in 1892 and the Royal Indian Navy in 1934. <ref> British Library [http://hviewerdiscovery.blnationalarchives.gov.uk/IamsHViewerdetails/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:r/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x00030c bdcaa040-b8f7-4a2e-b520-9fb0b3c4f290 Royal Indian Marine/Navy IOR/L/MIL/16]discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. </ref>
==FIBIS resources==
"Generally speaking the Personal Files of those who served as officers in the RIN during the Second World War, are to be found in the India Office Records at the British Library under Catalogue Number [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-1&cid=1-4-2#1-4-2 L/MIL/16/10 et sequ]. However, since there is some chance that the persons concerned may still be alive, you may have to show proof that you are the person concerned or that they are no longer with us and that you are directly related to them. Some records of service for Seamen as well as officers may be available in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-1&cid=1-4-1#1-4-1 L/MIL/16/1-9] which cover the period c1840-1947 and an index is available on the open shelves.
Records of leave and duty pay from 1886-1950 are to be found in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_1&cid=1-20-13#1-20-13 L/AG/20/13] and leave accounts and records of the payment of gratuities for officers released in the UK from 1945-47 may be found in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_1&cid=1-20-13-37#1-20-13-37 L/AG/20/13/37-45]. Finally, records of service pensions paid to retired officers in the UK from 1886-1968 are in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_2&cid=1-1-21#1-1-21 L/AG/21/21] or [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_2&cid=1-1-11#1-1-11 L/AG/21/11]"<ref>British Raj List [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia-BRITISHbritish-RAJraj.rootsweb.com/thread/2012-10987101/1350659800 post] dated 19 October 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2020.</ref>
==== Military Department Records====
Search for the following catalogue entries in the British Library [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1600134661434&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true Archives and Manuscripts Search].
*[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x00030c Royal Indian Marine and Royal Indian Navy] '''IOR/L/MIL/16''' c1840 - c1947.
*Departmental Papers '''IOR/L/MIL/7'''
**[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x0001a2 Naval cadetships] '''IOR/L/MIL/7/1345-1348''' 1881-1904**[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000883.0x000341 Royal Indian Marine: confidential reports on officers and engineers] '''IOR/L/MIL/7/2208-2215''' 1889-1919**[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x00028a Indian Marine: appointment of Assistant Engineers] '''IOR/L/MIL/7/4105-4136''' 1879-1916**[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x000014 Director of Royal Indian Marine: appointment of etc] '''IOR/L/MIL/7/11211-11235''' 1876-1943**[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000028.0x0000d3 Royal Indian Marine and Royal Indian Navy: appointment of officers] '''IOR/L/MIL/7/15381-15502''' 1878-1942*[http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000026.0x000073 Military Department Library] '''IOR/L/MIL/17/9''' 1870-1948. Includes publications on the Bombay/Indian Marine/Navy such as Navy Lists; Orders; Circulars; Notifications; Instructions; Regulations; Troop and Transport Service and Administrative miscellanea.
Indian Navy 1838-1859 are available, with images, on the [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] website.
==Persian Gulf 1909–14==
A clasp to the Naval General Service Medal (1915), "Persian Gulf 1909–14" was issued for operations against pirates, gun-runners and slavers. This clasp was awarded to an officer on RIMS Palindurus,<ref>Melhuish, Arnold. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.comorg/forumstopic/115822-royal-indian-marine-medal-index.php-cards/?showtopicdo=115822findComment&pcomment=1541613 Royal Indian Marine - Medal Index Cards] ''Great War Forum'' 01 February 2011. Retrieved 21 May 201615 September 2020.</ref> an indication of the type of operations during this period.
==First World War==
During the [[First World War]] ships of the Royal Indian Marine carried troops and other war stores from India to Egypt, Mesopotamia and East Africa. When mines were detected off the coasts of Bombay and Aden during the First World War, the Royal Indian Marine went into action with a fleet of minesweepers, patrol vessels and troop carriers. The Royal Indian Marine also played a leading role in landing troops in Mesopotamia and their small river craft did very useful work on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.<ref>Abstract of a paper "Royal Indian Marine in the First World War" by Kalesh Mohanan presented at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140610091810/http://www.indiaww1.in/Conference.pdf ''India And The Great War'' Conference] at The United Service Institution of India, New Delhi: 5-7 March 2014, now an archived webpage.</ref>
Many of the duties in Mesopotamia were subsequently transferred to the Inland Water Transport, which was part of the Royal Engineers, in September 1916. Following this, some of the Royal Indian Marine officers<ref>mbloy [Michael]. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.comorg/forumstopic/115822-royal-indian-marine-medal-index.php-cards/?showtopicdo=115822findComment&pcomment=1107407 Royal Indian Marine - Medal Index Cards] ''Great War Forum'' 29 January 2009. Retrieved 21 May 201615 September 2020.</ref> were transferred to the Royal Engineers, in addition to other personnel.
==Second World War==
**WW2: [http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas2520-RIN.htm Royal Indian Navy Ship Histories, Convoy Escort Movements, Casualty Lists 1939-1947]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150403044744/http://indiannavy.nic.in/press-release/role-royal-indian-marine-ww-i Role of Royal Indian Marine in WW I] Indian Navy, now an archived page.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150331064945/http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=Port-trust-employees-Parsis-were-in-WWI-15082014008007 "Port trust employees, Parsis were in WW I"] August 15 2014. nergish.sunavala@timesgroup.com. ''The Times of India (Mumbai)'', now archived. Memorial in Mumbai (Bombay) to seamen who died in WW1, including those in the Royal Indian Marine.
*[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11322262 WW I: Baffling end in Tigris] by Andrew Stone. 11 September 2014. nzherald.co.nz. Lieutenant Bernard Edmund Tibbs from New Zealand.
*Royal Indian Navy Mutiny, February 1946
