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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
pennant-vessel ^ Calcutta' was put out of commission, and
Captain Campbell proceeded to England, his health having
suffered greatly by two years' residence in the precincts of Fort
William, without a day's leave, an ordeal considered' sufficient
to tax the strongest constitution. The total force of the Indian
Naval Brigade, employed between August, 1857, and May,
1860, was as follows :—One captain, one commander, eighteen
lieutenants, one purser, nine midshipmen An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. , eighteen acting-
masters, fourteen acting second-masters, sixteen warrant
officers, and one thousand seven hundred and forty petty
officers, seamen, and marines, the latter numbering about
thirty European gunners of the Bombay Artillery, who had
formed part of the Detachments under the command of Com
mander Batt and Lieutenants Lewis, Carew, and Duval. This
force had two mortars, and thirty-eight guns, all 12-pounder
howitzer mountain guns, complete with limbers and ammunition
waggons, except Detachments Nos. 2, 3, and 5, which had
9-pounder field-pieces, of the usual equipment, with bullocks
and drivers.
The following officers of the Brigade proceeded to England,
either suffering from sickness or wounds :—Captain Campbell;
Commander Batt; Lieutenants Burnes, Carey, Carew, Duval,
Davies, Etheridge, Lewis, Tozer, Warden, Windus, and Yates,
being eleven out of the eighteen Lieutenants serving on shore.
Of these, Lieutenants Burnes, Carey, and Lewis ultimately died.
Of the Midshipmen An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. , Messrs. Brownlow, Gower, and Wray, died
in England, Mr. Mayo was unable to return to duty, Mr. Han-
nay resigned the service, and joined his father, Colonel Hannay,
in Assam; and Mr. Scamp, a promising young officer, who had
done good service in Fort William, and at Gya and Buxar, was
drowned at Calcutta on rejoining his ship. A large proportion
of the Masters left India in broken health, but, not being
covenanted officers, most of them were discharged on their
services being no longer required, so that no record exists of
their ultimate fate. Of the few who remained in the Service,
Acting-Master Chicken, as already related, was drowned in
May, 1860. Thus, to the last, the Indian Navy maintained its
baleful reputation as, perhaps, the most health-destroying of
any Military or Naval Service belonging to a European Power.
Those lieutenants and midshipmen An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. who remained fit for duty
proceeded to sea, and, as they had come to Bengal fresh from
laurels gathered in Persia, so they now went to China, and
participated in the war of 1860. It would be almost impossible
for us to speak in too eulogistic terms of the admirable conduct
of the warrant officers, petty officers, and seamen, who, by their
discipline and valour in an unaccustomed arena, increased the
renown gained on shore, in many fields from China to Aden, by
the ancient Service so soon to pass away. But it is needless,