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Proceedings of the Sub-Committee Public Service Commission. Pilot Service

1887

With the exception of the Port Officer the only gazetted officers who are-connected with that service are the Medical Officer at the Sandheads on a salary of 11360 a domiciled European and the Commander of the Undaunted on a salary of TWA a European officer of the local Marine whose ship is chiefly employed as a supply vessel to the pilot brigs. [...] 'The extreme length of the pilotage water on which the Bengal Pilot Service is employed is in the south-west monsoon 159 and in the north-east monsoon 127 miles.* The navigation presents peculiar difficulties owing to the strength of the currents the number and shifting character of the shoals and the extreme narrowness at certain points of the channels available for the passage of ships of a [...] The acceleration of the passage and the alteration in the construction of the larger ships which frequent the port have added to the danger of navigation in a degree scarcely less than it has been reduced by the employment of steam power. [...] The duties of the service as originally constituted were not confined to the piloting of vessels to and from the port of Calcutta and the Officering of the pilot brigs which served as depots for Pilots awaiting the arrival of inward-bound vessels. [...] It was contemplated that in time the Pilots would provide their own vessels ; and that Goverment would be relieved of the cost of the maintenance of the brigs and of the salaries of the Commanders and crews.
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Section I. Note by the Sub-Committee
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Section II. Note by the Departmental Member
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Section III. Sittings at Calcutta
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Section IV. Note by A. J. Milner Esq. Branch Pilot
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Section I. Note by the Sub-Committee
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Section II. Note by the Departmental Member
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Section III. Sittings at Bombay
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Section I. Note by the Sub-Committee
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Section II. Note by the Departmental Member
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Section III. Sittings at Madras
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