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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAYY.
General Sir) William Wyllie,* then commanding the troops in
the Southern Concan, writes to us " Captain Carless was of
great service to me at Vingorla, having landed nightly some
eighty European seamen for many nights when I was very hard
up for men, and he brought me supplies of provisions from Goa,
which were of great service to me as well as to the troops in
the interior during the rebellion in those parts."
In the year 1845, the Indian Navy Club was founded under
the auspices of Commander H. B. Lynch, Acting-Superintendent,
and a representative Committee of officers from all the com
missioned grades of the Service. The Club soon acquired a
great celebrity for its cuisine and general good management
under Messrs. Bone and Keys, pursers, and also for the liberal
terms on which its doors were opened for the admission, as
honorary members, of officers of the Naval, Military, and Civil
Services.f Early in this year,J the Hon. Company's schooner
* Of his estimate of the Service generally, derived from lengthened experience
of its officers on active service, Sir William Wyllie writes to us under date the
27th of April, 1877 —"I had many friends in the glorious old Service, wlucli
has now ceased to exist. Possessing a great knowledge of Eastern seas, they
knew their work well and did it well. No men could have performed it better
t On the abolition of the Indian Navy, the plate, furniture, and effects the
Club were sold, and realised a sum which recouped to the original members the
amounts of their entrance fees, the balance being handed over to a local charitable
inshhition-g ^j anuarT) 1845, there died at Singapore, in command of the
Hon. Company's steamer ' Phlegethon,' an officer who had served for some years
in the Bombay Marine The navy of the East India Company. , where he increased the rcputation he had acquired
His Maiesty's Navy. In 1809, at the age of eleven years, Captain Scott entered
the Koval Navv, and served successively in H.M.'s ships ' Swiftsure
seventy-four guns, and ' Ocean,' ninety-eight guns, under Sir Eohert ^mpton
He was wounded three times in one action and was three years a£isoner of ^r
when he obtained his release at the general peace of 1814. In the begmiurg
1815, through the influence of Mr. J. Bebh, then Chairman of the Cou^t ot
Directors, and of Captain Agnew, he was appointed a midshipman An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer. ^ :
Commnv's ship ' Carnatic, 5 and came to India with letters to the Local Govern
ment of'Bengal, by which he was transferred to the Hon. Ccmpanjs cru ^
' Antelope,' twelve guns. Captain J. Kail, belonging to the Bombay M '
at this time in the pay and uuder the orders of the Supreme Government. He
served in the ' Antelope' in the Eastern Islands until the latter P 0 ^ 10 " 0 ^ 8 ^
when he embarked for England in the hope of obtaining a .
Army. Being cast away, however, on the passage, his purpose
and he was persuaded to try his fortune in the South American causc unde Lor
Cochrane, and afterwards in the Brazilian cause under ^mmodOTe Jew tt
Lord Cochrane, till after the capture of Bahia, when he retired fr ° m 4 . . • th9
In July, 1824, he again hastened to India, for the purpose of J g ^
Bombay Marine The navy of the East India Company. in the Burmese Expedition, but arrived too late
patronage of Commodore Hayes, he flrst joined the Country Merchant berv ,
as chTe? officer of the 'Forbes' steamer; and, in July, 1830, ^tered the Harbour
Master's Department, which he left in April, 1831, on heing appointed. y
modore Hayes, Superintendent of the Midd eton Point ^-- He & J-tly
displayed great intrepidity in saving life and property, and, m th g exertion8
1831 the lives of forty-six natives were rescued by his activity ,p a mer
He was subsequently appointed to the command of the ' Ju ™ na P'® ts on
and while in this department of the Service his surveys and various rep^ ^
inland navigation, and particularly of the comm and of
Government and the country much service. In 184^, he assumeu o