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undress of the commodore be distin,i,niislied by two rows of
broad gold lace on the collar onl}' ; and that the full dress of
all the officers do remain as it now is, with the addition of the
epaulettes of their ranks respectively.
"This arrangement is to have effect from the 4th of the en-
suing month of June."
The above remained the uniform of the Service until after
the China War of lcS40-42, when fresh regulations relative to
the dress of the various grades were issued, under date 2r>th
of April, 1843. Finally, by a Standing Order of the 28th of
July, 1852, lieutenants and pursers were allowed two epaulettes
as in the Royal Navy, and additions were made to the uniform
of captains and commanders, and the various other ranks.
The year 1822 was a period of rest for the 15ombay Marine,
none of the cruisers, almost for the first time during the last
thirty years, being engaged in warlike operations. One or two
vessels were employed at Penang, and found some occupation
in hunting up the pirates, who were still very active and
aggressive ; some cruisers were employed in the lied Sea,
others on the coast of India on various duties, and five sail
found full and constant work in the Persian Gulf, where they
were engaged in cruising on the Arabian coast to watch tlie
Joasmis and other pirate tribes. The military force* stationed
at Kishm, under comnuind of Colonel Kennett, sutft-rud so
severely from the intense heat, owing to the camp being on a
rocky hill exposed to the heated prevailing wind, or shemal,
that, in February, 1822, the troops Avere removed thence by
the Company's cruisers to Sallack, on the south coast, eight
and a half miles south-west of Deristan, and, later, to J5assadon.'t
* The troops in the island of Kishm consisted of Artillery, the Bombay Euro-
pean Regiment, 2nd Battalion 12tli Regiment N.I., and Pioneers.
t Bassailore, wliicli has the advantage of an excellent harlwur, is situated at
the point forming the north-west extremity of Kishm ; a short distance witliiii
tlie point stand tlie nuns of the once ilourishing Portuguese town of Bassa(l.)re.
A survey of the port was made by Lieutenant J. 11. Qrubb, commaiuling the
Hon. Company's brig ' Ternate,' which the Bombay Government caused In be
published as "Directions for entering Bassadoro Island," under dat<« " Uom-
bay Castle, 21st January, 1823 ;" and aome years later, a " Report on Ba<sadi>rc,
with a Plan of the Roads," by Mr. Midshipman 11. H. lli'wi'tt, wjus i>uhlished.
Lieutenant Grubb died soon after comjileting tliis survey, ami at the same |)lace,
Moghu Bay, and on tlie same day (the I8th nf June, 1H23), Lieuteuanl K.
Reynolds expired, both being young and accomplished oflicers. At tlie time of
the abolition of the Indian Navy, the service buildings at Bassadore consisted of a
hospital for invalid seamen, a store-house containing ^hips' stores, a cooper's
sliod, a forge, and a house hn- the small guard of the Murine Battalion stalion.Ml
here. There were also tln-ee water reservoirs, a small ba/.aar for the supply of
stores for the ship's companies, the house of Kadadah, the Persian jnerebant
who catered for the ollieers of the s(piadron, and a small village inha'nled by
camp followers, some not of the most reputable kind. There were two or three
houses belonging to olUcers, including the commodore's residence, where was a
flagstaif for Ihe disjilay of the Union Jack, ami, linnily, a depot for a few-
hundred tons of coal brought from Bombay for the use oi Hon. Company's ships
of war.
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