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== Maritime Service ==
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The East India Company Maritime Services could be divided into three main categories:
* [[Bombay Marine]]. The Bombay Marine was the fighting navy of the EIC. In the later nineteenth century and twentieth century it was renamed several times, ultimately becoming the Royal Indain Navy in 1935.
* [[Bengal Pilot Service]]. The Bengal Pilot Service was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between Calcutta and the Bay of Bengal.
== Links ==
* [http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familymaritime.html The British Library IOR Maritime Service page]
* [http://www.eicships.info/index.html Andrea Cordani's EIC Ships website]
