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chap, ii.] A GOVERNMENT PRESENT.
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were appointed master-builders in their fathers'
places, and their services to the State were as valu-
able as those of their predecessors. ' They were
equally appreciated by the Government. In the year
1804 they were each presented by the Honourable
the Court of Directors with a silver rule, upon which
was engraved a suitable inscription.1
The services of Jamshedji Bamanji proved excep-
tionally valuable. He was the first of the Parsi
master-builders to be entrusted by the Lords of
the Admiralty with the building of men-of-war in
India. About this time numerous offers were sent
to the Admiralty for building line-of-battle ships, but
Bear-Admiral Sir Thomas Trowbridge, who held at
one time the command of His Majesty's squadron
in Indian waters, had a very poor opinion of the
people who had to perform the work and also of
1 " Presented by the Court of Directors of the United East India
Company to Framjee Manaekjee one of the Master Builders in their
Dockyard at Bombay in Testimony of their approbation of his con-
tinued Fidelity and long tried services and in encouragement to him
and his Family to persevere in that line of conduct which has so often
called forth the approbation of his Superiors.
AT LONDON 1804.
The Hon'ble Willm. Elphinstone, Chairman.
Charles GrantEsq., Deputy Chairman.
Jonathan Duncan Esq., Governor of Bombay."
Engraved on the hinges.
Britannia—Sir Edward Hughes—Bombay—Cornwallis—
mornington.
A similar testimonial was presented to Jamshedji Bamanji.
VOL. II. F
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were appointed master-builders in their fathers'
places, and their services to the State were as valu-
able as those of their predecessors. ' They were
equally appreciated by the Government. In the year
1804 they were each presented by the Honourable
the Court of Directors with a silver rule, upon which
was engraved a suitable inscription.1
The services of Jamshedji Bamanji proved excep-
tionally valuable. He was the first of the Parsi
master-builders to be entrusted by the Lords of
the Admiralty with the building of men-of-war in
India. About this time numerous offers were sent
to the Admiralty for building line-of-battle ships, but
Bear-Admiral Sir Thomas Trowbridge, who held at
one time the command of His Majesty's squadron
in Indian waters, had a very poor opinion of the
people who had to perform the work and also of
1 " Presented by the Court of Directors of the United East India
Company to Framjee Manaekjee one of the Master Builders in their
Dockyard at Bombay in Testimony of their approbation of his con-
tinued Fidelity and long tried services and in encouragement to him
and his Family to persevere in that line of conduct which has so often
called forth the approbation of his Superiors.
AT LONDON 1804.
The Hon'ble Willm. Elphinstone, Chairman.
Charles GrantEsq., Deputy Chairman.
Jonathan Duncan Esq., Governor of Bombay."
Engraved on the hinges.
Britannia—Sir Edward Hughes—Bombay—Cornwallis—
mornington.
A similar testimonial was presented to Jamshedji Bamanji.
VOL. II. F