ROYAL INDIAN MARINE
FULL NAVAL STATUS OLDEST SERVICE IH BRITISH INDIA (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, September 7. The Indian Navy Discipline Bill, which has now passed through both Houses of the Indian Parliament, gives full status of the navy to the Royal Indian Marine and" provides that the discipline of the force shall be regulated, as in the dominion navies, by the British Naval Discipline Act, suitably amended to meet local conditions. The Royal Indian Marine is the oldest service in British India, going back to the formation of a squadron in 1612 by the east India Company for protection against European rivals and Indian pirates. During the Great War its ships and personnel were absorbed into the Royal Navy. In 1926 it was decided to reorganise the service as a combatant force. It consists at present of five armed sloops, of which one is under construction, two patrol vessels, surveying ships, and a depot ship. The administrative task of reconstruction is already finished and the necessary Imperial Act'was passed by Parliament in 1927.
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Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 9
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