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==FIBIS resources==
*FIBIS database: [httpshttp://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sourcesourarchives.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=479&s_id=728 Officers of the Bombay Marine - 1802]*[https://search.fibis.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=480list_sources&s_idsource_class=728 Officers of the 222 Bombay Marine - 1830]*[https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=515&s_id=728 Officers of the Indian Navy 1858-1863]multiple databases.*FIBIS database: [httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=451&s_id=137 India Indian Navy Family Pension Fund & Family DetailsRecords]located in Military records/Pensions and Funds, from the British Library records :Indian Navy Fund: Family Register, compiled c 1855 with additions [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_3-3&cid=1-1-8-2#1-1-8-2 IOR/L/AG/23/18/2] and Indian Navy Fund: Family Register, compiled Jun 1864 with additions [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_3-3&cid=1-1-8-3#1-1-8-3 IOR/L/AG/23/18/3]. :'''These records are also available, with images, on the [http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] website.'''
==Records==
===The Navy List===
For at least some periods, ''The Navy List'', mostly about the Royal Navy, also included details about officers in the Royal Indian Marines etc. For editions available online, see [[Military periodicals online#Navy List|Military periodicals online - Navy List]].
===India Office records at the British Library===
FIBIS Chairman Peter Bailey wrote the following about officers in the [[Second World War]], but his advice is generally applicable:
"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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20200507005026/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india-british-raj.rootsweb.com/thread/987101/ post] dated 19 October 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2020, archived.</ref>
==== Military Department Records====
** Royal Indian Marine and Royal Indian Navy: appointment of officers '''IOR/L/MIL/7/15381-15502''' 1878-1942
* 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.
**Bombay/Indian Marine/Navy List (1870-1949) '''IOR/L/MIL/17/9/1-291'''. The frequency varies: half-yearly 1870-77, monthly 1878-Jan 1882, quarterly Apr 1882-Apr 1923, half-yearly Oct 1923-Jul 1925, and quarterly from 1926.
==== Marine Department Records ====
*[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>
=====Findmypast records=====:*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.=====FamilySearch digitised microfilms=====*[[IOR Marine records on LDS films]] include microfilms from the series IOR/L/MAR/C which contain wording "Bombay Marine" and "Indian Navy" in the film description. :See [[FamilySearch Centres]] for access details. Most appear to be available both at FamilySearch Centres and FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries.
===The National Archives, Kew===
*[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
* [http://www.hmsconway.org/sea_career%20RIN.pdf "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"
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