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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAYY.
Sedley, and Aylesbury; Purser Hora; Assistant-Surgeon Betts-
Mates Wood and Douglas; Midshipmen An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. Moorhead, Liardet'
Cobbold, and Evans. Two hundred men. Armament—Four
8-inch guns and two 32-pounders.
4 Medusa.—Lieutenant H. A. Fraser ; Acting-Mates Mason,
Duval, and Hunter; Midshipman An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. Harding (appointed Acting-
Mate on the 1st of June). Sixty men. Armament—Five 32-
pounders.
On the 23rd of March, Sir Henry Leeke, the newly appointed
Commander-in-chief of the Indian Navy, arrived at Bombay and
assumed charge, when the Governor issued the following
General Order to the Service :—
" Bombay Castle, March 23, 1852.
" Captain Sir Henry John Leeke, R.N., appointed by the
Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. to be Superintendent and Commander-in-
chief of the Indian Navy, has this day arrived and assumed
charge of his office, according to the terms of his commission.
Under the authority of the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , Captain Sir
Henry John Leeke is appointed Commodore of the First Class
in the Indian Navy. Commodore Lushington having resigned
his office into the hands of his appointed successor, the Eight
Hon. the Governor in Council avails himself of the opportunity
publicly to record the high sense which the Government enter
tains of the able manner in which the duties of the Marine
branch of the administration of this Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , have been con
ducted by Commodore Lushington, during the period he has
held the important office of Commander-in-chief. To Coramo-
dore Lushington the Government has been often and largely
indebted for his zealous and energetic co-operation in all its
views and objects, and especially on the recent occasion, when
a sudden and unexpected call was made for a detachment of
steamers to be employed in the Bay of Bengal. The celerity
with which this detachment was fitted, and the admirable order
in which it was despatched to its destination, have elicited the
marked approbation of the Supreme Government; and his
Lordship in Council feels it must be a source of much gratifi
cation to Commodore Lushington, on resigning his command,
to have been enabled to offer this most convincing proof of the
state of perfect efficiency in which the Indian Navy has been
maintained whilst under his charge; ready at all times for im
mediate action, whenever and wherever its services may be
required."
Commodore Lushington^ also received the thanks of the
• Commodore Lusliington commanded with distinction the Naval Brigade
before Sebastopol, and, from 1862 to 1865, was Lieutenant-Grovernor of Greenwich.
Hospital. He obtained Flag rank, and was nominated a K.C.B. in 1855, and
G-.C.B. in 1867. Sir Stephen Lushington died on the 28th of Maj, 1877, at the
age of seventy-three.