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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
duties have been performed during the past year, during which
time circumstances had unavoidably affected the discipline of
the Service. A great number of officers and seamen have at
different periods been attached to the flagship, as supernumeraries
awaiting their discharge from the Service, consequent upon
their vessels being put out of commission, and the Commodore
Commanding is proud and grateful to be able to state that at
no period of its existence, as the Indian Navy, has there been
less cause of complaint of officers or men of the Service, and in
bidding them farewell, he desires their acceptance of his best
wishes for their future welfare. To the different officers of the
Dockyard, Captain J. W. Young, C.B., Assistant-Superintendent
and Dockmaster, the officiating Indian Navy Storekeeper,
the Master Builder, and Chief Engineer and Inspector of
Machinery, the Commodore Commanding offers his best thanks
for the manner in which their several duties have been per
formed."
As the clock struck twelve, after the reading of the above
Order, a salute of eleven guns was fired from the battery at
the Apollo Pier in honour of the Commodore's broad pennant,
the Company's Jack," the distinctive flag of the Indian Navy,
was then hoisted at the Castle flagstaff and saluted with
twenty-one guns, and as the boom of the last gun sounded, it
was hauled down, the broad pennant of Commodore Frushard
and the pennants of all the Indian Naval vessels in harbour
were struck, and the Indian Navy ceased to exist.* Commodore
* Among officers employed in India after tlie abolition of the Indian Navy
were the following, in connection with the newly-established Bombay Marine The navy of the East India Company. ,
either in the Dockyard or in command of ships :—Commander H. Robinson
(Superintendent), Lieutenants Searle, Crockett, Carew, Morland, Brebner, Hewett,
Carpendale, and Dawes. Commander Giles, Master-Attendant at Kurrachee, suc
ceeded, in 1867, by Lieutenant Parker ; at Kurrachee, in charge of the Persian
Gulf Telegraph line, Lieutenant Stiffe ; in the Survey Department, Messrs.
Girdlestone and Chapman ; in Mesopotamia, lieutenants Bewsher and Warner,
and Acting-Master Holland; in Calcutta, in the Master-Attendant's and Dock-
Hyard Departments, Lieutenants Philbrick, Warden, and Duncan King; also
Messrs. Ellis, Bradbery, and C. King. Master-Attendant at Rangoon, Lieutenant
Arnot; at Singapore, Lieutenant H. Bum ; and at Penang, Lieutenant H. Ellis.
Among those holding appointments in other countries are Lieutenants H. Jackson,
and J. Wood in New Zealand ; Lieutenants Barron and Chester, Police Magis
trates in Australia ; Lieutenant Leefe in the Fijis, Lieutenant Carey in Madras, and
Mr. G. Lowder in China. Those who have followed me thus far will be interested
to learn some particulars in the story of the lives of the ships mentioned in the pre
ceding paues, from " the cradle to the grave," so far as we have been able to trace
them. The' Assaye' was lost on the Irish coast, and the ' Berenice' was burnt at
sea ; the ; Punjaub,' under her new name of ' Tweed,' traded between England and
Australia, and in June, 1877, was lying, as we were told, in the Hooghly. Ihe
4 Lady Canning' has been converted into a Seaman's Chapel and Library, and
also lies off Calcutta. The ' Constance' schooner, launched at Bombaym looo,
after being employed in the Survey Department, was transferred, in 18/7,
Master-Attendant at Rangoon. Still more extraordinary as an instance oi on-
gevity, is the fact that the schooner ' Mahi,' launched in Bombay Dock} ar m
1834, is still employed in the country trade on the Malabar Coast.