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For digitised microfilms available in the LDS (Mormon) library catalogue, see '''[[IOR Marine records on LDS films]]''' or search the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog FamilySearch Library Catalogue] using keywords India Office Marine Department. (See [[FamilySearch Centres]] for viewing information.)
:'''Note''': Microfilm ordering services has ceased however most microfilms have been digitised and are currently available for viewing on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre, and most of the records originating from the British Library also appear to be viewable at FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries. Locate these records through the FamilySearch catalogue. It is expected that in time all microfilms will be similarly available in this format.
==Books==
''A biographical index of East India Company Maritime Service officers, 1600-1834'', by Anthony Farrington London: British Library, 1999<br>
A companion volume to the "Catalogue", see belowabove, the biographical index provides summaries of the sea careers of some 12,000 individuals who made the voyage to Asia as commanders, mates, surgeons, or pursers in the service of the EIC. The information has been compiled from the surviving ships' journals, logs, paying-off books and associated sources in the Company's archives at the British Library. Available at the [[British Library]]UIN: BLL01007402159, on "Open Access".
==Malim Sahib's Hindustani==
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=aaoBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage ''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. Also available on Ancestry.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/barlowsjournal0000unse/page/n9/mode/2up ''Barlow's Journal of his life at sea in King's ships, East & West Indiamen & other Merchantmen from 1659-1703: Volume 1: 1659-1677''] by Edward Barlow. Transcribed by Basil Lubbock 1934. Barlow's first East India voyage was in the ship 'Experiment' 1670-1. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xwMYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 Vol. 1 Google Books], and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TAQYAAAAIAAJ Vol. 2 Snippet Google Books] which is searchable, but not viewable.
:[https://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive/objects/505786.html Images from original manuscript] with many drawings. Royal Museums Greenwich.
*[http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sea:175#page/8/mode/2up ''A voyage to and from the island of Borneo, in the East Indies : with a description of the said island … Also a description of the islands of Canary, Cape Verd, Java, Madura; of the streights of Bally, the Cape of Good Hope, the Hottentots, the island of St. Helena, Ascension etc''] by Captain Daniel Beeckman 1718. The first chapter states he was in the service of the East India Company. He sailed from England October 1713. South East Asia Visions Cornell University Library. Note, may be very slow to open.
*[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
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