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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-07/1279878133 thread] is about the occupation of Master Attendant, equivalent to Harbour Master. Initially it appears these men were part of EIC Marine, and later the Royal Indian Marine
*[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.eicships.info/ships/shipsearch.asp East India Company Ships] www.eicships.info
====Historical books online====
*[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 1716-1810''] 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

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