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wallis of seventy-four guns, and nearly completed the Wellesley of seventy-four guns, and it will add to the pleasure I now feel under their Lordships’ high approbation, if these latter works are considered not inferior to the first.”

Under Jamshedji’s supervision sixteen men-of-war and forty large ships were designed and built. For these valuable services he received numerous testimonials of approbation and commendation from His Majesty’s Navy, from the Lords of the Admiralty and the Court of Directors, and from every admiral and commander-in-chief in India.

By the Government of Bombay his services were not less appreciated. On their recommendation the Court of Directors presented him a few days before his death with a ‘‘jaghir,” yielding an annual income of Rs.6,000. Since his death, as had been the case before him, the post of Master-Builder of Her Majesty’s Dockyard has continued to be held by members of the same family to the complete satisfaction of Government. During this period, extending over a century and a half, they have built three hundred and thirtyfive new vessels, including many men-of-war, besides repairing innumerable ships.

The enlightened members of this family were not ignorant of the great improvements which were being made in England in the art of shipbuilding, and

they sent two of their ablest young men who had