The regiment traces their origins to 1777, when they were raised as the Marine Battalion.
They returned to the Gulf in 1821, at which time they were used in the punitive expedition in the Beni Boo Ali campaign against the pirates in Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf.
They were involved in a number of campaigns during the conquest of Sindh, including the Battle of Hyderabad in 1843.
After World War I, the Indian government reformed the army, moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.
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