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31.March.1872

British Burmah
seagoing vessel in commission
Nemesis - 405t 120nhp also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876

Bengal Government
seagoing vessels in commission
Undaunted - 470t 200nhp also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876 - also 31.3.1881
Arracan - 1100t 220nhp
Kwuantung - 523t 150nhp
Czarewitch - 886t sailing transport also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
from 31.3.1876 Tenasserim 1300t 250nhp - also 31.3.1881 (1160t 250nhp)
from 31.3.1881 Celerity 459t 150nhp

seagoing vessels out commission
from 31.3.1874 Czarewitch - 886t sailing transport
from 31.3.1874 Undaunted - 470t 200nhp
from 31.3.1874 Enterprise 609t 150t - also 31.3.1876 in commission - also 31.3.1881 in commission

inland vessels in commission
Jaboona - 271t 200nhp - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
Sir William Peel 391t 120nhp - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
Teesta 208t 60nhp - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
Koel 299t 90nhp - also 31.3.1874 (as flat but with engine) - also 31.3.1876
Koladyne 295t 90nhp - also 31.3.1874- also 31.3.1876
Prince Albert 357t 170nhp - also 31.3.1874 also out of commission - also 31.3.1876
Isla 400t flat - also 31.3.1874 also out of commission - also 31.3.1876
Gogra 304t flat - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
from 31.3.1876 Sir Arthur Cotton
from 31.3.1876 Star of Dacca flat
from 31.3.1876 Blenheim hulk
from 31.3.1876 Belvedere 10t 5.5nhp steam launch
from 31.3.1876 No.1 - No.10 85t 100nhp screw steamers
from 31.3.1876 No.1 - No.4 55t 110nhp paddle steamers
from 31.3.1876 Ganges canal steamer
from 31.3.1876 Lady lawrence 74t schooner
from 31.3.1876 No.1 - No. 17 steam barges 51t
from 31.3.1876 Flame 20t 12nhp

inland vessels out of commission
Ghazeepore 400t 240nhp
Koladyne 295t 90nhp
Konai 200t flat - also 31.3.1874 in commission also out of commission - also 31.3.1876 in commission
Ganges 365t flat- also 31.3.1874 in commission - also 31.3.1876 in commission

yachts
Sonamooke - Governor's General - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
Rhotas - Lieutenant General - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876

Bombay
seagoing vessel in commission
Magdala- 2187t 250nhp - also 31.3.1876
Abyssinia- 1854t 200nhp- also 31.3.1876
Dalhousie - 1060t 160nhp - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876

seagoing vessel out in commission
from 31.3.1874 Lord Elphinstone 440t 150t
from 31.3.1874 Scindo 408t 140nhp ( Sind ??) - also 31.3.1876 (as Scinde)
from 31.3.1874 Sir John Lawrence 457t 170nhp
from 31.3.1874 Earl Canning 441t 150nhp
from 31.3.1874 Coromadel - steamer

In other ports
Kwuantung - 523t 150nhp
Clyde 300t 80nhp - also 31.3.1874 out of commission - also 31.3.1876 out of commission
Sind 408t 140nhp - also 31.3.1874 out of commission ( as Scindo)
Amberwitch 597t 70nhp - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
Hugh Rose 300t 80nhp - gunboat - also 31.3.1874
from 31.3.1874 Victoria steamer 705t
from 31.3.1874 Burmene steamer 664t
from 31.3.1874 Dagmar steamer 472tt 200nhp - tug for harbour dutes - also 31.3.1876

Inland steamers
Goolanar 215t 40nhp
Sind 408t 140nhp - also 31.3.1874 out of commisssion
Fanny 108t schooner - also 31.3.1874 out of commisssion

Inland steamers In other ports
Comet - 204t 40nhp - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
Satelite 335t 60nhp - also 31.3.1874
Manora 414t 250nhp - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
from 31.3.1874 Jahlum 435t 60nhp - also 31.3.1876
from 31.3.1874 Multan 432t flat - also 31.3.1876

State Yacht
May Fere 308t 100nhp - also 31.3.1876 (despatch boat)

Despatch Boat
Snake 40t 10nhp - also 31.3.1876

Survey vessel
Constance - 182t - also 31.3.1874 - also 31.3.1876
from 31.3.1876 Clyde gunboat
from 31.3.1876 Guide brig
from 31.3.1876 Lady Lawrence schooner

Madras
from 31.3.1882 Madras 60t 30nhp

LRS 1869
Czarewitch ship iron frame planked
6.1866 Peverll , Sunderland
886t 185.0x32.5x 20.0ft
Adamson & Co, London

Tenasserim
tonnage is 1700; cargo capacity 1100 tons. She is a three masted screw steam ship. The crew consists of Captain Brown

J. & W. Dudgeon , Millwall
1870 Tenasserim 1492t 251nhp -Transport for Indian Navy -screw
1872 Enterprise 609t 150nhp - British Indian Navy -screw

Colledge
Tenasserim iron S. frigate
1872 River Thames
2570bm 250x35ft
1900-1906 harbour service

UNDAUNTED paddle Iron tug O.N. 52598.
L: 12/04/1865 by Archibald Denny Dumbarton, Yard No 37
470 grt, 258 nrt 161.0 ft x 25.3 ft x 15.5 ft
2cy 200nhp by Denny & Co, Dumbarton
17/05/1865 Registered Glasgow. G. Ross, Glasgow.
1865 Eastern Steam Tug Association Ltd, Calcutta.
1867 Government of India.

CELEBRITY Pilot Vessel
1859 William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton, #72
Indian Government Pilot Service

GANGES CANAL Canal Boat
1871 Robert Napier Govan, #155
East Indian Government

Bee, Kite Hawk, Shark
screw iron gunboats
1858 London
41t 20nhp 1gun
listed 1860 & 1869

The new gunboats prepared by Messrs. George Rennie and Sons for the Indian Government should be used. The one about to be sent to Mooltan might be tried on the Indus.

Gun-boats for India did not fail to find advocates. It was deemed almost a certainty that if light-draught vessels of this description had been on two or three of the Indian rivers, especially the Ganges and the Jumna, the mutineers would have met with formidable opponents; and even if the mutiny were quelled, a few gun-boats might act as a cheap substitute for a certain number of troops, in protecting places near the banks of the great rivers. Impressed with this conviction, the East India Company commissioned Messrs Rennie to build a small fleet of high-pressure iron gunboats; each to have one boiler, two engines, two screw-propellers, and to carry a twelve-pounder gun amidships. The boats were seventy-five feet long by twelve wide, and were so constructed as to be stowed away in the hold of a ship for conveyance from England to India.

Dagmar iron paddle tug ON50064
1864 Laird, Birkenhead #302
141/366 157.2x25.1x14.6
1864 James Stuart,London registry
"Destination India"

Royal Indian Marine Flotilla
stationed Irrawady c1897-8
Porpoise
Sladen
Bhamo
Pagan
Tamil -sunk
Patrick -sold

Ships purchased in Bombay for Abyssinian Expedition

Lord Elphinstone 654.28t 150nhp THE BOMBAY COAST AND RIVER STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
resold to Netherlands India Company buitl by Blackwood & Gordon (1865)
Earl Canning 661.37t 150nhp THE BOMBAY COAST AND RIVER STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
Sir John Lawrence 577.19t 70nhp THE BOMBAY COAST AND RIVER STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
Spitfire 136t 70nhp tug
Rustum 97t 60nhp tug
Jorowar 183t 100nhp tug
Pehlwan 60t 97nhp tug
Carnac 80.75t 16nhp steam barge
Clare 108.5t 16nhp steam barge
Rose 80.25t 20nhp steam barge
Wadoli 78t 20nhp steam barge

EARL CANNING paddle Iron Passenger cargo O.N. 30643.
L 10/08/1865 Robert Duncan & Co Port Glasgow, #13
990bm 661grt, 441nrt 227.5 x 30.2 x 14.9 feet
2 sets 150nhp, by Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow
18/09/1866 Registered Bombay.
1866 Bombay Coast & River Steam Navigation Co, Bombay.
1872 Hajee Joosub & Joseph Shepherd, Bombay.
1873 LUITENANT GENERAAL KROESEN Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company.
Status: Wrecked - 21/06/1876 in the Strait of Soenda (between Sumatra and Java), hit submerged rocks and broke in two.

LORD ELPHINSTONE Iron steamship ON 30644
1866 Blackwood & Gordon Paisley and Port Glasgow, #??
654grt, 440nrt 277.5x 30.3 x 14.5ft depth
150nhp Engines by shipbuilder
??, Bombay
1872 Hajee Joosub & Joseph Shepherd, Bombay
1873 (foreign)

Sir John Lawrence Iron screw ON52713 .
1.1865 Simpson &Co, Cubbit Town, London
780bm 458/577 207.9x28.0x13.5
2 sets 120
1865 A. H. Campbell ,London
1867 John Bournan, London
URL 1871 Findlay & Co, London
1872 Hajee Joosub & Joseph Shepherd, Bombay. (170nhp)
....

Pehlwan iron paddle tug ON 50278
1864 Miller, Liverpool #53
51/98 101.6x17.6x8.3
45
1865 Liverpool, Gilbert Cowie
1870 Bombay registry ?
1871 Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tota, Bombay

Rustan iron paddle tug ON50279
1864 Miller, Liverpool #54
51/98 101.6x17.6x8.3
45
1865 Liverpool, Gilbert Cowie
1867 first Bombay registry
1870 Bombay
1871 Callianjee Seewjee, Bombay (Rustam)

Spitfire iron tug
1864 Glasgow
135t 110x19x9
1872 Bombay Registry

Jorawur iron paddle tug ON48718
1864
101/184 124.9x19.7x10.6
100nhp
1864 John Fleming, London till 68

Vessels lent for service of the Expedition
Bengal Marine
Undaunted
Feroze
Czarewitch

Bombay Marine
May Frere - 308t 100nhp
Dalhousie - 1060t 160nhp
Constance - 182t - specially fitted as Light ship in the Red Sea
Sind 408.5t 140nhp
Coromandel 1221t 250nhp
Hyderabad - specially fitted as Condensing Vessel
Semiramis 1031t 270nhp - specially fitted as Condensing Vessel and Floating Workshop

Hyderabad - wooden flat launched 29.11.60 Bombay 394t

REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL 1871-72
seagoing steamers 4
Undaunted 6 officers + 60men sent to Andamas to remein here
Celerity 5+ 49 -only calm wather
AGITATOR 6+47 intendend to dredge
NEMESIS 6+61 british Burmah
seagoing brig and othe vessels 1
Czarewitch 5+72 sent to England
riverine steamers 7
Sir William Peel 5+49
Prince Albert 5 55
Jabonna 5+55
Koladyne 5+42
Koel 4+42
Teesta 4+36
India 1+22 condemned
riverine flats 5
Isla 1+22
...
pilot brigs , survey vessels , light ships bouy vessels, reserve 32
...
32 Dolphin buoy vessel 1+28 placed aat Fase Point
33 Guide - reserve pilot vessel 4+43
34-39 10 boats 232men
hulks 2
50. hulk Deva 12men
51 hulk Tubalcain 13men condemned


REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL 1872-73
seagoing steamers 2
steamer unsafe to sea 1
seagoing brig 1
hulk 1
pilot brigs , survey vessels , light ships bouy vessels, reserve 37
riverine steamers 8
riverine flats 5

steamer AGITATOR was transfered to Overland Transport Department for use in Suez Canal
steamer NEMESIS was attached to British Burmah
steamer UNDAUNTED stationed at Port Blair
her place in the river CELERITY which is very unseaworthly craft

REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL 1876-77
seagoing steamers 2
Tenasserim 11 106 transport Bay of Bengal
Enterprize 5 68 stationed at Port Blair
Irrawaddy 4 54 stationed at Rangoon
Nemesis 1 9 put out of commission
Undaunted 5 54 river service
Celerity 3 40 -out of commission
pilot brigs , survey vessels , light ships bouy vessels, reserve 30
Coleroon 3+35 pilot vessel Sandheads
Cassandra 3+35 pilot vessel Sandheads
Chinsurah 2+35 pilot vessel Sandheads
riverine steamers 6
Sir William Peel 5+49 harbour duty and in tour His Honour Lieuntenaat Governor of Bengal
Prince Albert 5 55 employed in Assam up to January
Jabonna 5+55 employed in Barh and partly in Dacca
Koel 4+42 stationed at Dacca
Teesta 4+36 stationed at False Point
Koladyne 5+43
Flame steamer & barges at Chittagong
Gemini steamer 2+11 attached to Viceroy establishment
Sir Arthur Cotton - stationed at Decca
Ganges flat 1+25 employed at Barh
Gogra troop boat 1+22 employed at Assam
Konai troop boat 1+22 reserve at Calcutta
Isla troop boat 1+22 employed in Harbour duty
12 steam launches
10 famine screw steamers
4 famine paddle steamers
??? 4
??? 6
??? 5
There were also 10 famine steamers and 1 3 flats The pilot vessels and light- vessels were in good condition. The reserve pilot vessel Guide, which was condemned last year, was sold. The number of light-vessels was raised from 5 to 6.
4 row boats were replaced by steamer CLYDE
steam launch TRYO and femine(paddle) steamer No.3 was replaced by femine (screw) steamer No.4
The buoy vessel DOLPHIN , which belonged to old service was retained
. In addition to the above there are 14 famine steamers and 16 flats. There are four light- vessels, the Comet having been condemned, but a new vessel is being built in the Government

REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENGAL 1878-79
seagoing steamers ??
Undaunted 5 54 river service
Celerity 3 40 -out of commission

In Sep. 1877 steamer Clyde was substituted for sailing vessel Kederee
reagoing vessels
Coleroon 3+35 pilot vessel of the cruising station
Cassandra 3+35 pilot vessel of the cruising station
Chinsurah 2+35 pilot vessel of the cruising station
Foam 3+26 floating light vessel
Dolphin 3+31 buoy vessel river service
Kederee 5+32 river surveying vressel
Marie 2+21 river surveying vressel
Star 3+27 floating light vessel up to September 1877 only - colided with AFRICA
Comet 3+26 floating light vessel
Planet 3+16 floating light vessel
Meteor 5+26 floating light vessel
Mermaid 3+26 floating light vessel
C... floating light vessel
No.2 paddle steamer