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*[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 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
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vQVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Narrative of the burning of the "Sarah Sands" screw steam ship, with the head quarters of H. M. 54th Regiment on board''] by a late an old 54th officer. [Frederick Schlotel] 1869. Google Books. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KUlHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5-IA1 1870 edition] Google Books. Full title and some text appear to differ. A vessel charted by the East India Company, for the conveyance of troops to Calcutta on the news of the Indian Mutiny reaching England, which sailed from Portsmouth on 15 August 1857 .
*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
