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* [[EIC Mercantile Marine]]. The Mercantile Marine was the principal merchant shipping service supporting the company's trade with India and the Far East. It was in operation from 1600 to 1834.
* [[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 Marine. The best known part was the [[Bengal Pilot Service]]. The Bengal Pilot Service which was responsible for guiding shipping between along the Hooghly River between Calcutta and the Bay of Bengal . Bengal Marine also included War Steamers, also called Sea Steamers, which were ships fitted with guns and river boats which were used to transport troops and was other passengers, and cargo. In (at least) the 1840s-1850s the river boats were part of '''Bengal Marine'''Inland Steam, or the Inland Steam Service and were described as Iron Steam Vessels appropriated to Inland Navigation, consisting of Steamers, Accomodation Boats and Cargo Boats. It seems likely that once private riverboat companies were established they took over the services of Inland Steam. In 1877 the Bombay Marine and the Bengal Marine were combined to form HM Indian Marine, which became the Royal Indian Marine in 1892 and the Royal [[Indian Navy ]] in 1935.
[[Image:Shipping on the River Hooghly.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Old postcard showing shipping on the River Hooghly, Calcutta'']]
*[http://blog.bullfarmoast.co.uk/?page_id=67 Henry Alfred Coggan’s Diary 1865. London to Calcutta]. The author, aged 19, worked his passage to India as a crew member on board the Staffordshire
*[http://quivis.co.uk/dum/index.html Arthur David Linklater, Master Mariner] - Duncan Linklater's excellent site contains information on shipping and navigation in the early twentieth century, including details of Linklater's employment by the British India Steam Navigation Company, the Royal Naval Reserve and the Calcutta Port Commission. It is located in the section of the [http://quivis.co.uk/ Quivis] site called Dum. With scans and transcripts of original documents and many pages containing facts useful to those with an ancestor in sailing and shipping, exploring the site is recommended (note also the [http://quivis.co.uk/dum/biog-contents.html biographical section contents page]).
*[http://sayeedsjournal.wordpress.com/chapter-24-working-along-mighty-rivers-of-the-east/ Chapter 24: "Working Along Mighty Rivers of the East"] from his autobiography ''Lest I Forget'' by Khwaja Sayeed Shahabuddin (born 1923). Mentions the "India General Navigation Company Limited (an English company) and River Steamers Navigation Company Limited (a Scottish company). Originally competitors, they later merged to become known as the Joint Steamer Companies and together played a vital role in the development of inland water transport in Bengal and Assam.” The author joined I.G.N. Company a well known , the British Inland Water Transport Company, in 1947. [http://sayeedsjournal.wordpress.com/chapter-26-working-with-the-joint-steamer-companies/ Chapter 26: "Working with the Joint Steamer Companies"]
*[http://www.biship.com/history.htm A Short History of British India Steam Navigation 1856-1956] from B I Ship. Contains details of the establishment of The Calcutta & Burmah Steam Navigation Co Ltd which became the British India Steam Navigation Co. [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bisn.html British India Steam Navigation Company] from the Ships’ List
*[http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/asiatic.htm Asiatic Steam Navigation Company] from the Ships’ List.
*[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 and Horatio Charles Hardy 1811 Google Books
*''Volume I, Part II The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842'' Google Books**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LNEQCLbWoP4C&pg=RA1-PA21 "Vessels attached to the Bengal Presidency"], page 21. Includes Steam Vessels, and Iron Steam Vessels appropriated to Inland Navigation, the latter consisting of Steamers, Accomodation Boats and Cargo Boats.**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LNEQCLbWoP4C&pg=RA1-PA26 "Inland Steam Traveller’s Guide"] page 26 *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Bgk8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA381 "On the Advantages of Extending Inland Steam Navigation in India"] page 381 ''The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 1843''. Mentions steam boats "belonging to the Bengal Government"*''The India Directory: or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America'' by James Horsburgh Sixth Edition 1852 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gCk6YV5AslIC&pg=PP7 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=faCjf8FPR14C&pg=PR3 Volume 2] *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_StDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA390 "Appendix in respect of War Steamers, also called Sea Steamers, belonging to the Presidency of Bengal, for a ten year period from 1841"] page 390 ''First Report from the Select Committee on Indian Territories'' May 1853 Google Books. Same [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9280m73p?urlappend=%3Bseq=400 page 390, Hathi Trust] where the pages may be rotated. *[http://books.google.com/books?id=CIUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The golden Golden Dagon, or, Up and down Down the Irrawaddi: being passages Passages of adventure 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*There is a brief mention of the river boats sent from India to China in the war of 1860 on [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=diwLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 page 55] ''The British Arms in North China and Japan: Peking 1860; Kagosima 1862''
by D.F. Rennie MD, Senior Medical Officer of the Force in the North of China 1864 Google Books*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6H4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92 "Marine Report"] page 92 ''Annual Report on Administration of the Bengal Presidency, 1860-61'' Google Books*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/handle/10973/4892 ''Commerce by river in the Punjab (1861-62 to 1871-72) or a Survey of the Marine Department of the Government of the Punjab''] by Faqir Chand Arrora 1930. GIPE Pune
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP3 ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports''] by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/oldeastindiamen00chatiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''The old East Indiamen''] by E. Keble Chatterton, 1914 Archive.org
