Indian i Bombay Marine

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Parowce na rzece Godavery 1863

Prince 415t 80nhp/240ihp constructed Dowlaishwaram
Trevelyan 275t 40nhp
Arthur Cotton 50t 25nhp towing capacity 60t
Queen 50t 25nhp
Hope 30t 12nhp constructed Dowlaishwaram
Thistle 28t 12nhp
Shamrock 28t 12nhp towing capacity 30t
Rose 28t 12nhp
May Flower 18t 12nhp towing capacity 30t

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Margaret Northcote 60t 30nhp reported Madras 1881

In 1893 the paddle-wheel steamer " Margarita " replaced the " Margaret Northcote " but as her working- was costly in fuel, she was seldom used for towage. When the Fisheries Department took control in 1909, one of the first steps taken ...

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There were no one unifed Indian Navy , but two
operated in 1844 the steamers (sailing ships not listed)

Indian Navy steamers
Acbar (1841 Glasgow)
Ariadne (1840 Bombay)
Assyria (1840 England re assembled Arabia)
Atalanta (1845 London)
Auckland (1840 Bombay)
Berenice (1835 Glasgow)
Cleopatra (1839 London)
Comet (1839 England re assembled Bombay)
Euphrates ( England re assembled Arabia)
Hugh Lindsay (bombay 1828)
Indus (1838 England re assembled Bombay)
Medusa (1840 England re assembled Bombay)
Meteor (1839 England re assembled Bombay)
Nimrod ( England re assembled Arabia)
Nitoeris (1840 England re assembled Arabia)
Planet (1840 England re assembled Bombay)
Satellite (1840 England re assembled Bombay)
Semiramis (1840 Bombay)
Snake (1838 Bombay)
Victoria (1839 Bombay)
Zenobia (1837/8 Waterford)


Bombay navy (based on Bombay Pilot service)

Diana (1836 Calcutta)
Enterprize (1838 Calcutta)
Ganges (1827 Calcutta)
Hooghly (1844 Calcutta)
Queen (1839 London)
Irrawaddy
Tenasserim (1841 Moulmein)
Experiment
Phlegethon (1840 Liverpool) iron
Nemesis (1840 Liverpool) iron
Proserpine (1840 London) iron
Pluto (1840 London) iron
Lord Wm. Bentinck (res. Calcutta) iron tug boat Ganges
Thames (res. Calcutta) iron tug boat Ganges
Jumna (res. Calcutta) iron tug boat Ganges
Megna (res. Calcutta) iron tug boat Ganges

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Margaret Northcote iron screw
L.18/09/68 T. 25.9.68 C.1868 Charles Mitchell & Co., Low Walker, Newcastle-on Tyne
61t 82x16.5x7.4ft
1868 Council of India

I visited Narrakal in the pearl fishery steamer, the " Margaret Northcote," which had been lent to me for the cruise round Cape Comorin, and which drew only five feet of water, so that we were able to go through the Faumben Passage, ..

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Tenasserim wooden (teak) paddle sloop
LD. 1839 L.25.04.1841 private shipyard, Moulmein
769bm tons
220nhp
Crew: 87
2-68pdr on circles (fore & aft) 2-34pdr broadside
Costs 3,98,846 Rupes (37,392 pound)

HC superintendent was Charles Bremner of Bengel Goverment
Built on lines based on HC Queen
Her first employment was with the expedition in China, on which service she was placed in February 1842, and continued in it till the October
1868 listed, 1859 off service, her engines used in new steamer Arracan built 1859 at Calcutta
bark of 610t was launched here

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Wszystkim wielbicielom przepisywacza Rifa W. podaje nasteupujace dane

Queen wooden paddle sloop
K: 1839 L:30.05.1839 T:24.10.1839 Curling & Young, Limehouse
1249t 767bm tons 410nrt 177ft10inoa 173pp x31 x19ft6in(depth)x 14(mean)
2 sets 220nhp = 9.5kts by Seaward & Co., Canal Iron Works. 2 boilers, wheels 22ft
Crew: 97
2-68pdr (8in 65cwt)on circles (fore & aft) 2-32pdr (26cwt) broadside
23.11.1839 from Portsmouth , Warden to Bombay
The armed steamer Queen arrives from England after a passage of four months.
1.05.1840 22.01.1843 expedition in China
main part of 1843 unemployed in Calcutta
early parts of 1844 a few trips to Arracan
Nov 1844 transferred from Bengal to Bombay Presidence
July 1857 still listed in Bombay
1858 not in service

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Famine reilef boats
6 built 1874 by J.&G.Rennie , Greenwich
85bm tons 90x14ft x3ft 2 engines 100ihp=9kts
carried 27t grain

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ENTERPRIZE wood paddle
L: 23.2.1825 C.D.Gordon & Co., Deptford
275 tons burthen 464om 141’ 6” x 27’ 8” x 5’ 11”
Two cylinder engine 2 @ 42” x 48” 120nhp/240ihp = 6kts by Maudslay, Sons & Field,London; wheels 15ft
3.3.1825 reg for builders
6.6.1825 reg East India Steam Packet Co. - London
16.8.1825 left Falmouth
7.12.1825 Arrived at Calcutta as the first steamship to reach India from the U.K. (2/5 voyage under sails)
1826 Sold to the Bengal Government for service in the Burma War,subsequently as a tug on the River Hooghly.
(officially 1837 Register closed “Vessel sold for service in the East Indies”)
1829 Sold to the Bombay Government for Bombay/Suez service
1829 Re-sold to the Bengal Government, reconditioned at Bombay, & returned to Calcutta as a Hooghly tug
1838 Vessel condemned as unseaworthy & broken up. Engines transferred to replacement ENTERPRIZE under construction at Kidderpore.

Parbury's oriental herald and colonial intelligencer 1838

Steamer Enterprize.—The hull of the steamer Enterprize, was put up for sale in 27 April, at Messrs. Moore, Hickey and Co.'s auction room, for the second time, and again bought in, the highest bid being but 12,000 rupees.
Was not sold.

Steamer Enterprize.—The hull of the steamer Enterprize, was put up for sale in June, at Messrs. Moore, Hickey and Co.'s auction room, for the second time, and again bought in, the highest bid being but 7,000 rupees.

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ENTERPRIZE wooden paddle
L: 10.7.1838 Calcutta Docking Company, Kidderpore DockYard
513bm 572grt 437nrt 147pp x 27max
Two cylinder engine form ENTERPRIZE (I)
2-12pdr on circles (for & aft) 2-18pdr broadside
1859: 7 guns
Costs 2,53,603 Rupes ofr 25,360 pound)
In service from 1.05.1840
1860 not listed.

Calcutta monthly journal and general register ... - 1838
The New Steamer Enterprize—The new steamer Enterprize is now taking in her boilers; she is getting ready as fast as she can, but it is feared she will not be able to make her first trip before February next.

General Report on the Administration of the several Presidencies ... - p.228
1860
The Steamer Enterprize, which has been so often reported as unseaworthy and unfit for further service, was brought up to Calcutta in the month of November, 1858, and finally condemned and Sold. She realized Rupees 30301-0-0. 60

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Hooghly wooden paddle steamer
L: 1.1841 Kidderpore Dock Yard
189bm
2 sets 50nhp/100ihp by Maudslay & Sons
engines from Hooghly (i)
2 long 9pdrs on circles
served Straits Settelments 1846 to 1863

Irrawaddy iron paddle tug
L: 12.1841 C. end 1842 Kidderpore Dock Yard
351bm
2 sets 80nhp/140ihp from old Irrawaddy by Maudslay & Sons
2-24pdrs howitzers 2-6pdr long 2-3prds 1-6pdr rocket tube
Costs 1,73,503Rp (17,350 )
assembled 1839 under direction of Captn J.H.Johnston
FEb 1848 in service Arracan
9.02.1850 struck upon a rock near Atagat and was broken up.

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Auckland wooden (teak) paddle frigate
L: 9.1.1840 Bombay Dock Yard
946bm
220nhp/440ihp =7kts by Maudslay & Sons produced 1838
2-68pdrs (8in) 2-32pdr (25ctw)
crew 119
6-68pdrs (*)

1869 AUCKLAND, steamer 4guns
1878 AUCKLAND, Hulk. 768 Tons Bombay
1888 AUCKLAND, Hulk. 768 Tons Bombay

Report from the Officiating Superintendent of Marine, dated Bombay, 28th August 1866,
3. Her Majesty's steam frigate "Auckland" was built in Bombay Dockyard in 1839, and planked with Moulmein and Rangoon (or Burmese) teak. She has repeatedly given way in the butt ends, is now in dock, leaking from the deterioration of the butts and planking.

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Victoria wooden paddle sloop
K: 13.6.1839 L: .10.1839 Bombay Dock Yard
714bm 179x28x10
2 sets 230nhp/ihp =kts by p by R.Napier Glasgow #48; coppered boilers; fastest ship in service 11kts under sail
1-32prd (56 ctw) revolving 2-32pdr (25ctw)
crew:
1863 sold as too slow under steam and offering poor accommodation for troops
IAL 1869 still listed

also 705t 200nhp^4 guns (*)

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Semiramis wooden (teak) paddle frigate
K: 1841 L: 26.2.1842 Bombay Dock Yard
1031bm 189x34x21(depth)x12
250nhp/0ihp =8.5kts by Forrester & Co.
2-68pdr 6-32pdr on the main deck
later 6-68pdrs (8")
Crew 150 (76w+54n)

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Pearse & Co troop transportship:

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Scind iron paddle brig rigged ON49341
L: 1862 C:12.5.1863 M.Pearse & Co, Stockton #44
408bm 340ger 214brt 160x23.3x12.0ft
2 oscillating 140nhp by Bolton & Watt, Birmingham
yard list: Dune
URL 1884-5 D.Mackinnon, Calcutta

Cassandra iron brig rigged pilot boat
L: 14.11.1864 C:12.64 M.Pearse & Co, Stockton #59
242nrt 120x25x15ft9in

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The Year-book of facts in science and art
1861
von John Timbs,James Mason

A STEEL TROOP-SHIP. A Remarkable ship has been constructed on the banks of the Tees, at the yards of Messrs. M. Pearse and Co., Stockton-on-Tees. This is a Steam Troop-ship, and the largest river steamer in the world, and is intended for the navigation of the Lower Indus. She is constructed entirely of steel, and exceeds in length all ships hitherto built, except the Adriatic and the Great Eastern. The following are her principal dimensions :—Length over all, 375 feet; beam moulded, 46 feet, the paddles projecting 13 feet more on each side, making a total breadth of 72 feet. The extreme depth amidships is only five feet. This is uniform throughout, the vessel being quite flat-bottomed, except at the ends, which are alike, and are. spoonshaped. The paddle-wheels are 23 feet in diameter, and are driven by engines of 200 nominal, but capable of working up to 800 horse-power. She is divided into compartments by twelve watertight bulkheads: has two decks, containing three ranges of beds, separated by two passages. These latter are built in two houses, each 100 feet long, in a somewhat similar mode to the saloons of the American river steamers, and leaving a clear gangway outside all round the ship. The ventilation is by an apparatus steered by a novel contrivance. Two blades at each end, diverging from each other at an angle of 70°, are made to dip alternately into the water at an angle of 35°, right or left of her course, and the slightest immersion on either side is immediately effective beneath the flat bottom of the enormous vessel. The necessary firmness to this great but apparently frail structure is secured by two girders, fastened to two parallel keelsons at the sides of the vessel. These are formed of steel plates, and the keelsons are 300 feet long, from which the girders spring in a chord, whose curve is 18 feet. To these the whole framework of the vessel is braced and trussed, so as to give it enormous strength. The quantity of steel used in her construction is only 270 tons; she will accommodate 800 soldiers, besides officers and crew, and draw only 2J feet of water; tonnage only 1000 tons. She was built from the designs of Mr. J. B. Winter, engineer to the Council of India, and was taken to pieces to be shipped for Kurrachee, at the mouth of the Indus.