In 1934 the King approved 9 grant of the title of Royal Indian Navy to a Service whose history dates from 1612, in which year the East India Company despatched ships to Surat to protect the company's interests against the Portuguese and the Dutch. as well as against pirates who were, in those days, a constant menace in the Eastern seas.
In recent years, the Service has been reorganized on naval lines as: a combatant Service. Ils ships. fly the White Ensign and its discipline and training follow those of the Royal Navy.
'The most' modern vessel of the Royal Indian' Navy, consisting of five sloops, a surveying ship, a depot ship. for training purposes' and minor craft, is H.M.S. Indus, which was completed on the Tyne' in 1935, and which took part in the Jubilee and Coronation "reviews.—Wireless Through Reuter.
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