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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAYY.
gineers arrived from England for the service of the steamers of
the Indian Navy.
The steam department was first established in the Dock
yard, under the superintendence of Major McGilivray and
Captain (now Lieutenant-General) H. B. Turner, Bombay
Engineers, assisted by Mr. D. McLaren. Captain Turner de
signed and constructed the steam factory An East India Company trading post. , and, under his super
intendence, the iron vessels 4 Ariadne' and 4 Medusa,' sent out
from England for the China War, and others for the pur
pose of opening up the navigation of the Indus, were put
together, and the earlier steamers employed in commencing
and maintaining the communication between Bombay and
tbe Indian Navy. Engineers are to be distributed into three classes, with the
denomination of First Class engineers, Second Class engineers. Third Class engi
neers. The classes are to rank relatively in that Order, and the engineers to rank
with each other according to seniority on the official list of their class. They are
to have rank on board ship relatively with boatswains, gunners, and carpenters.
No person will be deemed eligible for an appointment as engineer in the East
India Company's Naval Service, or for promotion to the higher classes, until he
shall have passed an examination before a competent engineer, or some other
officer to be appointed for that purpose ; or until he shall have produced a certi
ficate to the same effect from a respectable and competent engineer, as to his
qualification for such class, as hereafter stated, viz. :—
"Qualification for First or Chief Engineer.—No person will be considered
qualified to hold the warrant of a First Class engineer who is not able to keep
accounts, and to make notes in the log, of every particular of the working of the
engines and boilers. He must be thoroughly acquainted with the principles upon
which the machine works in all its parts, and capable of setting right any defects
which may arise in the engines or boilers, and also to adjust the length of the
various rods and motions, slide-valves, and eccentrics. He must have been at
sea as an engineer, and be capable of working, starting, and stopping the engines,
&c., and able to make rough sketches, correct in proportion, of any part of the
machinery. He must be able and willing to exert himself practically as a work
man upon occasion, either in driving, packing, or repairing the engines. He
must be willing to instruct in his art such lads, European and Native, as the
Court or the Indian Grovernment may place under him as apprentices, receiving as
a premium with each Is. per diem, for so long as such apprentices shall remain
under instruction, upon production of a certificate from the commanding officer
under whom such engineer may be serving, that the apprentices have been duly
instructed.
" Qualification for Second Class Engineer.—He must be equal in education to
the first engineer, and but little inferior in mechanical acquirements, with the
exception of the nicer points of adjustment of slides, &c., and his improvement in
all such points of knowledge will be the road to his succession to the post of first
engineer.
" Qualification for Third Class Engineer.—He must not be inferior in educa
tion to second or first engineers, and will be selected either from the senior class
of apprentices, or appointed direct into the Service from a factory An East India Company trading post. . He must be
accustomed to engine work, and acquainted with the principles of the engine,
with the names of its parts, their several uses and effects in procuring motion ;
and, if found qualified, he will be eligible for promotion to the higher grades, as
vacancies occur.
" Enployment of Engineers on Shore.—An engineer of either class may be
required to perform duties on shore, or to make repairs of machinery in the Mint,
or in any factory An East India Company trading post. , or on board other steam vessels than that to which he is
attached.
" Pay of Engineers.—First Class engineers, for the first three years, £200; from