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Mahratta pirates attacking the sloop 'Aurora', of the Bombay Marine, 1812; end of the action (Updated, September 2014). In the early 19th century British ships were still vulnerable to surprise attacks by pirates, who used their knowledge of the sea and local conditions to full advantage. The ‘Aurora’ was a 14-gun sloop of 247 tons, launched at Bombay in 1809 for the Bombay Marine - the armed naval force run in the Eastern seas by the East India Company, mainly for trade defence: it became the