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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY. 479 '

personnel and materiel were on the 1st of Januar}-, 1828. The
ships at that date, consisted of the ' Hastings,' thirty-two
guns ; the four eigliteen-gun sloops-of-war, ' Elphinstone,'
' Coote,' 'Amherst,' and 'Olive;' the fourteen-gun sloops-of-war
' Ternate,' ' Benares,' and ' Aurora' ; the brigs ' Ant(dope,'
fourteen guns, 'Nautilus,' fourteen guns, and 'Thetis,' ten
gtnis ; and the ten-gun brig ' Euphrates' (on the stocks).
Besides these there were the ' Discovery,' six guns, surveying
vessel; the brig ' Paliuurus,' eight guns; the schooners 'Vigilant
and 'Zephyr,' six guns; a bomb-ketch, and about six or seven
pattaraars and other smaller craft. The strength in officers,
and their pay, was as follows :
One master-attendant on the captain's list, 30,000 rupees
per annum ; one commodore, 24,000 rupees per annum ; eleven
senior captains, average pay, 1,000 per month ; twelve junior
captains, 700 rupees per month ; thirty first-lieutenants, drawing
two rupees three annas a day when in command, or the
allowance of their appointments, in addition to their pa}'' of
150 rupees per month ; twenty-two second-lieutenants, drawing
from ^'2 to 122 rupees per nionth ; and forty midshipmen whose
monthly pay was from 30 to 50 rupees.
There were also some lucrative staff' appointments at this
time, lucrative that is, when the scale of pay awarded to the
Service is considered. The Marine Board* consisted of the
Superintendent, who was not an officer of the Service, the
master-attendant, the commodore of the harbour, and the senior
captain, who also latterly held the office of boat-master and
agent for transports ; they met on the Tuesday and Friday of
every week, with a secretary and accountant, a post held by a
lieutenant. One of the officers of the Service also held the
office of deputy judge-advocate-general, with a staff allowance
of 200 rupees per month, which was abolished by order of the
Oourt, on the 14th of August, 1832. In addition to these
offices, the prizes held out to the veterans of the Service, were
the posts of commodore at Surat and in the Persian (lulf. and
master-attendant at Oalcutta, which luul been held fur a great
many years by Commodore Hayes.
The year 1827 was to see a radical change in the constitution
of the Service, but, though greater advantages were held out to
the officers, these promises were never fulfdled in their integrity.
* We find by referring to the Marino General Onlei-a tliiit, in 1S2S, tlie
following odicers were appointed members of the Marine Board. " Sepieniber
26, Captain Richard Morgan appointed to suceeod jiresent Alaster-Attendant and
Inspector of Tort, and to be second member of Marine Board. Captain William
Graham to be General Agent for Transports and Boat-Master and third Member
of Marino Board." " January 7, ls:i!t, Captain P. Maughan to be Cajitain of
Mazagon Dockyard and Member of Marine 15oai-d, in succession to C'aptain
Walker deceased." On the 2.'Jlh of September, IM'.S, we also liml tliat Captain
George Grant was gazetted to bo senior otlieer at Surat, an oillee formerly
held by a Commodore with a high salary.