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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
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On the 4th of May, 1862, the 4 Semiramis' arrived at Bom-
bay. It would be impossible to speak in too high terins of the
skill and resource which was displayed by Commander Worsley
and his officers, in rescuing their ship when the officers of the
4 Ariel' pronounced her to be a total loss.
As it was decided that the paddlewheel steam-frigates, i As-
saye' and 'Punjaub,' should be converted into screws, they
sailed for London—the 'Punjaub,' Commander Foulerton, on the
8th of February, and the 4 Assaye/ Commander Adams, on the
31st of March. But they were put out of commission on their
arrival in England, and the Indian Navy list 44 knew them no
more, though as sailing ships in the mercantile marine they
maintained their reputation as swift sailers.
^ On the 6th of October, 1861, the 'Ferooz,' Commander
Tronson, proceeded to Suez for the newly appointed Governor-
General, Lord Elgin; and, on the 12th of March, in the
following year, his Lordship landed at Calcutta under a salute
of twenty-one guns from the ' Ferooz' and Fort William. On
the 19th of March the 'Ferooz' again sailed with Lord Canning,
who arrived in England on the 26th of April, only, however, to
die on the 17th of June, when his great services, which had
been rewarded with an Earldom and the Garter, received the
final recognition of a public funeral in Westminster Abbey,
where, within twelve months, his two greatest lieutenants in the
pacification of India, Lord Clyde and Sir James Outram, were
also laid to rest. On the 24th of April, 1862, the 6 Auckland,'
Commander Eraser,"* arrived from Beypore with Sir Bartle
Frere, Member of the Supreme Council, who was appointed
Governor of Bombay; and, on the same day. Sir George Clerk, the
late Governor, embarked for Suez on board the 'Dalhousie,'
Commander Hopkins, under salutes from the 6 Ajdaha,' 4 Clive,'
and 4 Auckland,' thus closing an Indian career of remarkable
success and usefulness. On the 14th of August, 1862, the
4 Serniramis' proceeded to Aden to relieve the 4 Zenobia,' and
Commander Adams, who had assumed command of that ship,
and the duties of Senior Naval Officer from the 8th of July,
shifted his pennant to the 4 Semiramis' on the 30th September,
when the 4 Zenobia' returned to Bombay under command of
Lieutenant F. Gardiner, ai d was finally put out of commission.
By a Royal Warrant of the 27th of May, 1862, published at
Calcutta by the Supreme Government, under date the 29th
July, a new Table of Precedence, a matter always of prime
importance in India not only among Native princes, but with
society at large, was promulgated to the services Civil and
Military. In this Warrant the Commander-in-chief of the Indian
^ Commander Fraser, hitherto commanding the c Falkland,' exchanged with
Commodore Drought, of the 4 Auckland,' which arrived from the Grulf on the 7th
of April.
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