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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAYY.
in the Service as " Polyphemus," owing to his having lost an
eye in action—and nine petty officers and seamen. Her com
mander, Captain Frushard, proceeded to England on sick-
certificate, after thirty-three years' continuous service in the
East, and Commander Adams, of the 6 Assaye,' on his arrival at
Aden, found the ship dismantled and the crew housed on shore.
With characteristic energy he sent working parties on board
the ship, fumigated and whitewashed the holds, store-rooms,
and lower deck, sent up masts and yards, bent sails, ordered the
crew on board, and despatched her on a cruise with the
4 Assaye's' surgeon in medical charge, when not another case
of cholera occurred.
In 1854, w 7 hen this country was engaged in her great struggle
with Russia, and the Muscovite bear and the still more in
satiable Crimean winter were calling for more victims, the 10th
Hussars and 12th Lancers were ordered to proceed from India to
participate in the glories and disasters of the sanguinary struggle
before Sebastopol,* upon which the eyes of the world were
fixed. The 10th Hussars, about seven hundred men, with their
horses, embarked on board the 4 Punjaub,' Commander Young—
which had been fitted in six days with stalls for two hundred
and fifty horses—'Auckland,' Commander Drought, 'Victoria,'
Lieutenant Adams, and the sailing transport 4 Sultana,' with
Lieutenant Etheridge, I.N., as agent for transports, all of which
sailed for Suez on the 9th of January, 1855; and it may be
noted as a proof of the fine lines of the 6 Punjaub' and her
admirable sailing qualities, that, though without her engines
and impeded by her great paddle-boxes, she sailed the other
vessels hull down, and, while they were staggering under full
steam or a press of sail, she was running before the gale with
her topsails lowered on the cap. On the 21st of February, the
12th Lancers, with their horses, sailed in the 4 Queen,' Com
mander Montriou ; and the transports,'Precursor'(steamer);
4 Earl of Clare,' with Lieutenant Jackson, I.N., as agent for
transports ; 4 Earl Grey,' with Lieutenant Hunter, I.N., as agent
for transports ; and 6 Jessica,' with Lieutenant Whish, LN., as
agent for transports. On the 24th of February, the 4 Semiramis,'
Lieutenant Batt, and 4 Assaye,' Commander Daniell, sailed for
Mangalore, and, having embarked the remainder of the 12th
Lancers, proceeded to Suez, but the engines of the 4 Assaye
roke down, and she had to tranship her cargo of men and horses
to the 6 Semiramis.'
The supervision of the transport duties was performed by
# The only officer of the Indian Navy present at the bombardment of Sebas-
topol, was, we believe, Lieutenant Pengelley, who served in the Turkish Con m-
gent as Naval Director of the Land Transport Corps, from the 13th o: [ ^ ct0 ^
1855, to the 29th of May, 1856 ; while thus employed he witnessed the bom ai
ment of the northern forts of Sebastopol, and was present at the occupation a
Kertcli by the Allies, for which services he received the medal.