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A Malim Sahib was a ship’s officer. There was a specialised nautical, bazaar baht or bat, vocabulary spoken by Indian crews.
A dictionary was published in 1920, ''The Malim Sahib's Hindustani'' <ref>Woods, Chris.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20181027074415/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india-british-raj.rootsweb.com/thread/2726072/ American English & Malim Sahib's Hindustani] ''Rootsweb India-British-Raj Mailing List'' 11 September 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2018, archived. ''The Malim Sahib's Hindustani: for use both ashore and afloat in connection with Lascars and all other low-caste natives of India who speak the bazaar "bat”'' by C T Willson, Bombay Pilot Service. “For ship's officers who wish to acquire a working knowledge of low Hindustani spoken by native crews, coolies, servants and longstoreman generally. All nautical terms and words in common use both ashore and afloat are included."</ref>, which became a required text book for all Cadets, Officers, Radio Officers and Engineers, on joining the British India Steam Navigation Company.<ref>Feltham, John. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200805163823/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/9900501/ Sea Cunny] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 24 October 2002. Retrieved 25 October 2018, archived.</ref> The language was a mixture of
Hindustani-Gujarati-Marathi-Konkani (Ratnagiri), a little Urdu..... a pot pourri of words, but simple and effective.<ref name= Malim>"The Maalim Saabs Hindustani" [http://trsearecalls.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-maalim-saabs-hindustani-part-1.html Part 1], [http://trsearecalls.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-malim-sahibs-hindustani-part-2.html Part 2] Mariner’s Nostalgia website. Mandatory for British Officers on B I Ships.</ref> The vocabulary was considered similar to a dialect, in that a European who had learnt this vocabulary was said to speak Malim Sahib's (Sahibs) Hindustani.
*[http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EICintro.htm Merchant Vessels in the Service of the East India Company, 1601-1832] on the Mariners website. Lists ship details.
*Maritime Resources 'Articles of Agreement' by Chris Woods dated 30 August 2013<ref>India-British-Raj List post [https://web.archive.org/web/20200805155824/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india-british-raj.rootsweb.com/thread/609592/ Maritime Resources 'Articles of Agreement'] by Chris Woods dated 30 August 2013, archived.</ref>
*[https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/etd/21/ ''To Stand Against the Company: A Study of the British Honourable East India Company and Piracy in the Indian Ocean World, circa 1680-1760''] by John Daniel Ridge 2017. A Thesis for a Master’s Degree in History, Murray State University Murray, Kentucky USA. [https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=etd Direct pdf].
*[https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/11/journey-to-india-of-randolph-marriott-east-india-company-servant.html "Journey to India of Randolph Marriott, East India Company Servant"] 8 November 2018. British Library Untold lives blog. He had been appointed a [[Writer|writer]] in Bengal, and left England 22 January 1753 on the ship Portfield, arriving on 25 July 1753.
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/06/the-loss-of-the-east-indiaman-ganges.html "The loss of the East Indiaman ‘Ganges’" [in 1807<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 15 June 2017. British Library untold lives blog.
*[https://maps.nls.uk/world/rec/5842 1923 Map: The World - Sailing Ship Routes] Great Britain. Hydrographic Office. London : HMSO, 1923. maps.nls.uk
====Historical books online====
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015003557488?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''The History of Piracy''] by Philip Gosse 1934, first published 1932. HathiTrust Digital Library. Contains "Book IV: The Pirates of the East". An earlier book was [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19564 ''The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers''] by Philip Gosse, first published 1924 Gutenberg.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/PiratesOfTheEasternSeasCharlesGrey/page/n3/mode/2up ''Pirates of the Eastern Seas (1618-1723). A Lurid Page of History''] by Charles Grey 1933 Archive.org.
:Grey was also the author of ''The Merchant Venturers of London : A record of Far Eastern Trade and Piracy during the 17th Century'' by Charles Grey 1932. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001510311 and, for those with suitable University access, [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001121362 HathiTrust Digital Library]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=lZheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Hon. the United East India Company, from the Union of the Two Companies, in 1707, to the Year 1760: Specifying the Number of Voyages, Tonnage, Commanders, and Stations. To which is Added, from the Latter Period to the Present Time, the Managing Owners, Principal Officers, Surgeons, and Pursers; with the Dates of Their Sailing and Arrival: Also, an Appendix, Containing Many Particulars, Interesting to Those Concerned in the East India Commerce''] Printed for Charles Hardy London 1800. Google Books. Also available on Ancestry (pay website) in the database "UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939".
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=aaoBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage ''A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company 1760-1810''] by Charles Hardy and Horatio Charles Hardy 1811 Google Books. Also available on Ancestry.
