'Miscellaneous Papers.'

Title:

'Miscellaneous Papers.'

Date:

1786/1860

Description:

Abstract: The volume contains a collection of miscellaneous East India Company (and India Office) papers on 'Marine' matters, including correspondence, memoranda, committee papers, minutes, lists, notes, and extracts.The papers cover: Indian Navy (IN) matters (including constitution and government of the IN, teaching of naval gunnery, recruitment, midshipmen, shipbuilding at Bombay, and the legality of ships of the IN carrying merchandise); batta [officers' allowances]; the need for more regular communications between Bombay and the Persian Gulf; Madras (duties of the office of Master Attendant, and the Marine Board); lascars and native seamen; the award of service medals for the Persian and Burmese wars; pilots; native servants; lists of Marine Department charges at Aden in 1850; appointment of Agents; remarks on the steam route via the Cape of Good Hope; the cost of machinery for a steam factory at Bombay; and miscellaneous matters.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 183; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. One additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-183; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Naval affairs
Naval personnel
HM's Indian Navy

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100022551646.0x0003ac_ar
81055/vdc_100022551646.0x0003ac_en
IOR/L/MAR/C/909
IOR/L/MAR/C/909

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