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218 HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
per annum. Some years later the title of junior captain as a
substantive rank, was created, and the numbers of the superior
grades stood at eight senior and eight junior captains; the
lieutenants' list remained at the same strength, while the
number of the rank of midshipmen or volunteers, fluctuated
with the will of Government and the exigencies of the Ser-
vice.
Mr. P. Dundas occupied the office of Superintendent for three
or four years with considerable credit to himself and benefit to
the Bombay Marine, and, at the end of that time, was removed
to another office ; his loss was regretted by the officers of the
Service, whose honour and welfare he had ever studied, while
mindful of the interests of Government. He was succeeded by
Captain William Taylor Money, who proved himself an equally
efficient head of the Service entrusted to his care, and united
the regards of his employers with the good-will and loyalty of
his subordinates.
To assist in thwarting Napoleon in his schemes on Egypt,
which, however, Nelson and Abercromby did most effectually in
their victories of the Nile in 1798 and Alexandria in 1801, the
British Government despatched, in 1799, a naval force from
England to cruise in the Red Sea.
At the same time, orders were sent to the Bombay
Government to secure and fortify the island of Perim, which is
the first notice we have of the intention, subsequently carried
into effect, of Great Britain seeking to command the waters of
the Red Sea, by the same means she has so successfully
employed in the Mediterranean ; thus, in her hands, in course
of time Aden and Perim have become almost as important
strategic points as Gibraltar and Malta, and are scarcely less
essential to the protection of the highway to her Eastern
possessions. Mention has already been made of Perim, in the
Straits of Babelmandeb, as the island which the European
pirates, under Avory and Kidd, first occupied, but which, owing
to the want of water, for which they made extensive borings,
they were obliged to evacuate for other ports in Madagascar.
Acting under instructions, the Bombay Government, in April,
Volunteers.— (Continued.)
George Furghall—' Rocluey' ..... Appointments.
Dates of
Names and Stations.
John Macit— Inspector at Surat..... . Sept. 5, „
Mar. 15, 1798
—
' Bombay' ......
' Marquis Cornwallis
'
Thomas Dyke Ballantyne
.
Mar.
David Ross — ' Ternate'..... Feb. 22, 1799
6,
„
Henry Hardy ....... —
Philip Maughan — 'Mornington' .... —
—
' Teignmoiith ' ....
David McDonald
Frederick FaithfuU— ' Bombay'..... Feb. —
27, 1801
—
' Fly'.,...
WUliam Arrow
' Teignmouth'.....
John Spier Young — Feb. — 3, 1801
—
—
David Jones