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* [[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 Indian 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 and was part of '''Bengal Marine'''.
==FIBIS Resources==
:*"Part 1" ''FIBIS Journal'' Number 4 (Autumn 2000)
:*"Part 2" ''FIBIS Journal'' Number 6 (Autumn 2001)
"Gahan, Eaton & Co" by Nigel Penny [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] Number 21 (Spring 2009) pages 11-19. A family history of sea Captains, Master Attendants and Merchants.
"Wrecked or Captured, the East India Company Ships that Failed to Arrive", a fascinating talk given by Andrea Cordani, writer and researcher on East India Company Ships, at FIBIS's Spring lecture meeting in May 2009, is available to download or listen to on the [http://feeds.feedburner.com/FibisPodcast podcast page]. The presentation that accompanied this talk and a book list for further reading can be found in the Members area of the FIBIS website at [http://members.fibis.org/presentations.htm Members Area-Presentations].
An edited edition of this talk is available in ''FIBIS Journal'', No 22 (Autumn 2009), page 15. This edition also contains an article "The Loss of an East Indiaman in 1807 : account by Samuel Rolleston" on page 23. For details of how to access these articles, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
FIBIS Database
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=451&s_id=137 India Navy Pension Fund & Family Details]
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=222 Bombay Marine-Indian Army] Provides details of Officers, Ships, etc. of the Bombay Marine (1613-1830). In 1830 it was re-named the Indian Navy. This was abolished in 1863 and re-placed by a non-combatant Bombay Marine
==Books==
====Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=y0gSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 "Return to an order of the Honourable House of Commons, dated 26 June 1833 for: Lists of all pensions granted by the Company to Commanders, Officers, Seamen, Widows and Orphans, of the East India Company’s Commercial Marine Service. since the year 1793 to the present time; specifying the grounds upon which such pension was granted, the amount of each, and the source whence the pensions are derived"]. ''House of Commons Accounts and Papers: Session 29 January-29 August 1833 Volume XXVI'' Google Books
*[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
