Mention of the Officers working on HEIC boats jogged my memory about a possible transcription of the "Poplar Fund" that I offered to do some 10 years ago! This Fund was about the more ordinary sailors at sea around the 1780--1830(if I have remembered correctly) and the books were in the India Office Library Collection, but as I was then starting on the transcription details former ex India Other Ranks Pensioners & Widows still alive in 1896 it was not an appropriate moment to do this, after a while I enquired again but was told that someone was "writing a book" which should contain all of the entries from the volumes held at the Library. Has this book ever been published as it would provide a large number of "new" folk for our potential Family Trees.....? Peter D Rogers,Suffolk UK