'Persian Gulf. Despatch of a vessel of war to Mohumra.'

Title:

'Persian Gulf. Despatch of a vessel of war to Mohumra.'

Date:

1850/1850

Description:

Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the sixth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commanding the Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant-Colonel William Fenwick Williams, HM Commissioner for settling the boundaries between Turkey [Ottoman Empire] and Persia [Iran].The item concerns Lieutenant-Colonel Williams’s request for HC Ship Cliveto remain for an extended period at Mohumrah [Khorramshahr, also rendered as Mahumrah and Mahumerah in the item], and Hennell’s decision to despatch HC brig Euphratesto Mohumrah to replace the Clive.The item contains a table of contents (f 499), and the title page (f 498) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 6’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 498 and terminates at f 504, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Boundaries

Geographic region:

Mohumrah

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100108386818.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108386818.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2416/130511
IOR/F/4/2416/130511

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