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*[[:Category:Ships and Sailing images|Ships and Sailing images]]
*[[1864 Calcutta cyclone]]
*[[Trooping season]]
==Books==
*[http://www.mmd.gov.in/history.html History of Development of Maritime Regulations/Acts and Changing body of Controlling Authorities] Mercantile Marine Department, Mumbai
*[http://www.movcon.org.uk/History/Documents/DID/D-MCHS%200290.10.htm Troopships and Trooping] by R G Robertson movcon.org.uk. Includes mention of troopships to India
**The [[Trooping season|trooping season]] between India and the United Kingdom lasted for about seven months each year The gap, April-October/November in India was the same each year – to avoid the worst of the heat in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
====Historical books online====
*There is a brief mention of the river boats sent from India to China in the war of 1860 on [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=diwLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 page 55] ''The British Arms in North China and Japan: Peking 1860; Kagosima 1862''
by D.F. Rennie MD, Senior Medical Officer of the Force in the North of China 1864 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6H4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92 "Marine Report"] page 92 ''Annual Report on Administration of the Bengal Presidency, 1860-61'' Google Books
*[http://hdl.handle.net/10973/22217''Commerce by river in the Punjab (1861-62 to 1871-72) or a Survey of the Marine Department of the Government of the Punjab''] by Faqir Chand Arrora 1930. GIPE Pune
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP3 ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports''] by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/oldeastindiamen00chatiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''The old East Indiamen''] by E. Keble Chatterton, 1914 Archive.org
