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== External links ==
*[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/occupations/maritimeservice/maritime.html The British Library IOR Maritime Service page].
:**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].**A description of [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmar_5&cid=1-2#1-2 Marine Miscellaneous Records '''IOR/L/MAR/C'''] 1600-1879.(Access to Archives) "The collection is in process of re-arrangement and listing in separate series L/MAR/1-9 according to type and provenance". Included in these records are "personnel records of the Company's maritime service (at all levels of employment, but including particularly the appointment and services of commanders and mates of East Indiamen), the Bombay Marine, the Indian Navy, and the Bengal Pilot Service" but no further details are given.
*[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 Hope and Bombay in the Ship Sesostris by James Smith, 1829-1831]
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