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:*There is a set of records called Ships' Journals IOR/L/MAR/A-B 1605-1856. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_1&cid=1-1#1-1 Read] about these records . The various ships are listed alphabetically, following the order in ''Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834'' by Anthony J.Farrington (London, 1999).<br>Browse the ships names [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_1&cid=1-1#1-1 A-Dav], [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_2&cid=1-1-1#1-1-1 Daw-Han], [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_3&cid=1-1-1#1-1-1 Hap-Mas], [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_4&cid=1-1-1#1-1-1 Mat-Sat], [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_5&cid=1-1-1#1-1-1 Sc-Z plus extra ships names from 1834].
*[http://www.eicships.info/index.html Andrea Cordani's EIC Ships website] which includes a [http://www.eicships.info/help/glossary.html glossary] defining terms such as 'Regular Ship' and 'Extra Ship'
*[http://www.btinternet.com/~kidners/sesostris/sesostris.html A Journal of a voyage to the Cape of good Good Hope and Bombay in the Ship Sesostris by James Smith, 1829-1831]
*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/index.htm British Maritime History - Realistic genealogical guides to surviving records and more], Len Barnett’s site, has sections on:
:*[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainheic.htm EIC]- A realistic guide to what is available to those looking into the careers of seagoing servants (1600-1834)
====Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=1vwHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Journal or Narrative of the Boscawen's Voyage to Bombay 1749, by a young gentleman''] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=aaoBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=collett+bombay&as_brr=1 ''A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company 1760-1810''] by Charles Hardy, Horatio Charles Hardy
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=CIUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The golden Dagon, or, Up and down the Irrawaddi: being passages of adventure in the Burman Empire''] by John Williamson Palmer 1856 Google Books. The author was an American doctor, appointed, in Hong Kong, surgeon on the EIC war steamer Phlegethon ('''Bengal Marine''') which took part in the [[2nd Burma War]], 1852-1853
