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*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_5&cid=1-2#1-2 Marine Miscellaneous Records] '''IOR/L/MAR/C''' 1600-1879. These records include “personnel records of the Company's maritime service (at all levels of employment, but including particularly the appointment and services of commanders and mates of East Indiamen), the [[Bombay Marine]], the [[Indian Navy]], and the [[Bengal Pilot Service]]”. <ref>Martin Moir, A General Guide to the India office Records 1996</ref>
:Bombay Marine and Pilot Service Appointments 1822-1832, IOR/L/MAR/C/688 and Volunteers (cadets) for the Indian Navy, 1838-1859 IOR/L/MAR/C/710-714, are available, with images, on the [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] website, in The British in India Collection, believed to be located in British India Office Births & Baptisms.
===The National Archives, Kew===
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]. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/115822-royal-indian-marine-medal-index-cards/?do=findComment&comment=1107407 Royal Indian Marine - Medal Index Cards] ''Great War Forum'' 29 January 2009. Retrieved 15 September 2020.</ref> were transferred to the Royal Engineers, in addition to other personnel.Officially, they appear to have been regarded as attached to Inland Water Transport, and to have remained part of Royal Indian Marine.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1917/jul/12/mesopotamia-royal-indian-marine Mesopotamia (Royal Indian Marine)] Hansard 12 July 1917.api.parliament.uk. Entry for [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.510659/page/n2548/mode/1up Lt. James Armstrong] in War Dead listed in ''Gazette of India Extraordinary 18th March 1920''. </ref>
==Second World War==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190518184959/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11382850/Commander-Arthur-King-obituary.html Commander Arthur King - obituary [1917-2014<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 01 February 2015 ''The Telegraph'', archived page. He was in the Royal Indian Navy 1936-c 1947. He is probably "Commander King, who commanded HMIS Talwar" whose actions led to/aggravated the 1946 Mutiny, mentioned in Reginald Massey's article above.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/a-peek-into-indias-enduring-maritime-history/article4736411.ece?ref=slideshow#im-image-0 Slideshow: A peek into India's enduring maritime history] Photographs by K.K. Mustafah. The Southern Naval Command’s Maritime Museum, located at Fort Kochi, hosts a variety of exhibits tracing the origin and evolution of the Indian Navy. ''The Hindu'' May 21, 2013
* "Old Conways & India – Part I: The Indian Navies v10" by Alfie Windsor, 2017. Accounts by Old Conways, old boys from the British training school ship HMS Conway. Copy and paste the link <nowiki>http://www.hmsconway.org/sea_career RIN.pdf</nowiki>
*[https://www.greatwarforum.org Great War Forum] contains a category "Sailors, navies and the war at sea"
*[https://archive.org/details/inlandwatertrans00hall ''The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia''] by Lieut.Col L J Hall, R.E. 1921 Archive.org. The initial part of the book sets out the problems being experienced which led to the formation of the Inland Water Transport: [https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00hall#page/n21/mode/1up Page xii] states that the work of controlling and managing the fleet of river craft "was not in the usual line of Army or Royal Indian Marine experience".
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.206513/2015.206513.Report-Of#page/n125/mode/2up "The Royal Indian Marine"] page 79 ''Report Of The Army In India Committee 1919-20'' (1920) Archive.org
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41358199 "The History Of The Royal Indian Marine"] by E. J. Headlam, ''Journal of the Royal Society of Arts'' Vol. 77, No. 3985 (April 5th, 1929), pp. 519-540 (22 pages). jstor.org. Register with JSTOR and read online for free, limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]
*"The Royal Indian Navy" by Commodore J. T. S. Hall C.I.E., R.I.N. pages 68-79 ''Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society Volume 32, 1945 - Issue 1''. Download this journal from [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1945-journal-of-the-royal-central-asian-society-vol-32-s-pdf/ Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset] If download icon does not display, locate under Journals.
*[http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/19694 ''1919. Signal Letters of British Ships (formerly the British Code List) for the use of ships at sea, and for signal stations''] Prepared by Charles H Jones, Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Published for the Committee of Lloyd’s. Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative (DAI). Direct link for [http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/Signal_Letters.pdf pdf download]. [http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/19585 Page xix “Ships belonging to the Royal Indian Marine”]
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/index.html ''The Royal Indian Navy 1939-1945''] by Instructor Lieutenant D.J.E. Collins, B.A.L.T. Indian Navy. 1964. Part of the series ''Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War'' by the Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan). From "HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web"
