Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 January 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2504/142185. Further enclosures to the letter can be found at: IOR/F/4/2504/142194; IOR/F/4/2504/142195; IOR/F/4/2504/142196; IOR/F/4/2504/142197; IOR/F/4/2504/142198; and IOR/F/4/2504/142200. The item is the fifteenth in a series of sixteen items about the Persian Gulf.The item contains instructions from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, dated 28 October 1852, following reports of 'suspicious vessels' around the Persian [Iranian] Coast and rumours that the 'pirate' Soheil ben Ateysh [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh, also rendered in text as Sheil ben Ateysh] has returned to Biddah [Al Bid‘] and Wakrah. Kemball instructs Robinson to warn his commanders to look out for these vessels, including how to identify them and what to do with them.Kemball sends copy of his instructions, along with some comments, to the Government of Bombay, who in turn forward them to the Government of India.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'Draft No. 350 of 1853', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 8 of 1853', 'Vol: 15', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '6' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1275, and terminates at f 1279, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2203/108134. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the ninth in a series of thirty items.The item concerns the loss of the bugla [baghlah] ‘
Dureya Duolut’ [
Darya Dowlat], which sailed under British colours, and was wrecked of the Verdistan shoal [near Kish Island]. 180 passengers and crew were lost, along with the cargo, valued at 2.5 lacs of rupees.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Coll[ection]: 18, Collection No 8 of No 37’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 678, and terminates at f 682 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.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the fifty-eighth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to the new rule that all vessels belonging to ports under the ‘political control’ of Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, who wish to trade in India must now carry a pass or register that has been signed by him. A list of the relevant shaikhs impacted by this is present at folio 618. The item also relates to a similar requirement that all vessels sailing under the flag of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat must have a pass or register countersigned by Captain Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat.The issue is raised that affected vessels may have already departed for the season without the necessary paperwork. Solutions to this problem are discussed by the following: Hennell; Henry Young, Collector of Customs at Bombay [Mumbai]; and the Government of Bombay.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 58’, ‘Collection No. 14 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The title page also contains a note that relevant correspondence can be found in Collection No. 1 accompanying despatch from the Government of Bombay, 18 June No. 82 of 1848.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 614, and terminates at f 626, 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.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions, cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1854, and found at IOR/F/4/2575/152543. It is the sixth in a series of thirteen items about the Persian Gulf.The item relates to discussions about whether Arab or Persian [Iranian] vessels trading in Indian ports should be required to produce certification documents to avoid paying double customs duties. The advantages and disadvantages of enforcing such measures are debated. The discussion also includes references to the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1820), a Government Gazette notification from 9 January 1839, and Act VI of 1848 passed by the Government of India.Correspondents include: Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Richard Spooner, Acting Collector of Customs, Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]; John George Taylor, British Agent at Bussorah [Basra]; and the Government of Bombay.Taylor's correspondence includes a report on the types of documents currently used at Bussorah and Kowait [Kuwait] with respect to external trade.The item also contains example documents at folio 293 recto and folio 306.Except from an extract of the Government Gazette from 9 January 1839 (folio 294 verso), the rest of the item dates from 1853-54.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'P.C. [Previous Communication] 8964', Draft Number '908 [18]54', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 32 of 1854', 'Vol: 6', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '6' but this has been crossed out and replaced with '1'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 288, and terminates at f 308, 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.
Abstract: The map is appended to a
Memorandum on Persian Railways(f 184), and shows the Persian Gulf and portions of adjacent countries
,indicating the routes of railway lines and telegraphs, hydrology, coastal headlands, relief with spot heights, district names, major towns and cities, international boundaries and zones defined by the Anglo-Russian Convention of 31 August 1907. The map also provides a key to symbols used and short notes on territorial sovereignty.The sheet was published in the series, 'Topographical Section, General Staff, No. 2385.', by the 'War Office, June 1908.'Physical description: Materials: Printed in colour on paperDimensions: 713 x 568mm, on sheet 775 x 660mm
Abstract: Map of the Persian Gulf region, to accompany
Bagdad Railway No. 1 (1911). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty, May 1911(London, His Majesty's Stationery Office). The publication appears on folios 215-252.The map was produced by the Topographical Section of the General Staff, War Office.Physical description: Material: printed on paper.Dimensions: 720 x 560mm, on sheet 850 x 620mm.
Abstract: Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf Report, 1898.There are details on Muscat; Mussandam Promontory; Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab; Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Kuwait; Fao [Al Fāw]; Basra; Bushire; Lingah; Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].Also included is an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf generally' given in the House of Lords, May 5, 1903.Maps include: rough sketch of operations in the vicinity and Bushire from the 3rd to the 10th February 1857 (Reproduced from Outram's Persian Campaign 1857); sketch of the attack on the batteries of Mohumra [Khorramshahr]: combined naval and military forces under command of Sir James Outram; sketch of the ground in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz [Ahvāz] on the Karun [Kārūn], showing the position occupied by the Persian Army, and the advance of the British detachment upon the town, March 1857. At the back of the report there is a large fold-out map: General Outline Map of the Persian Gulf showing Submarine Cables and the Principal Places mentioned in the Report.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on a map that is stored in a sleeve at the back of the volume, on number 57.
Abstract: The file contains a printed report published by the 'Admiralty, Intelligence Department (No. 694). September 1903.', providing a compilation of available information of naval, military and political value about various locations in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Places described include Muscat, Mussandam Promontory, Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab, Pirate Coast [Arabian Coast], Bahrain, Kuwait, Fao [Al Fāw], Basra, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Bushire, Lingah and Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf Pilot, 1898. The report also includes an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf generally' given in the House of Lords, 5 May 1903; and advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance and under-water defences.Two hand-stamps appear on the front cover and on folio 3, which read, 'War Office Library 27 Nov 1903', and, 'Mobilization and Intelligence Dept. 27 Nov 1903'.The volume contains seven maps.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 57; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence is present in parallel throughout.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, memoranda, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood. It is the twelfth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2131/101199, IOR/F/4/2131/101200, IOR/F/4/2131/101201, IOR/F/4/2131/101202, IOR/F/4/2131/101203, IOR/F/4/2131/101204, IOR/F/4/2131/101205, IOR/F/4/2131/101206, IOR/F/4/2131/101207, IOR/F/4/2131/101208, IOR/F/4/2131/101209, IOR/F/4/2131/101211, IOR/F/4/2131/101212 and IOR/F/4/2131/101213).The item concerns the voyage of HMS
Foxand HM sloop
Pilotto the Persian Gulf, and Blackwood’s request for an interpreter to accompany them.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 252/46, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5171, Collection No 1 of No 126.’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 740, and terminates at f 752, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The file contains two versions of a paper by Captain Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy entitled 'The Persian Gulf'. The paper was clearly intended to be a guide for British officials who had been newly posted to the region.The paper gives information on the geography and history of the Persian Gulf; descriptions of individual states in the region; a section entitled 'How to Behave' (expanded in the second version under the title 'Arab Religion and Manners'); and a note on currency.The file also contains covering correspondence from the Middle East Department of the Foreign Office, dated May 1946.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 32; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 1-32 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The item consists of seven letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. The letters refer to general updates from the Persian Gulf and surrounding regions between August 1852 and February 1853. It is the first in a series of sixteen items on events in the Gulf.The first letter is dated 31 August 1852 and is present at folio 1082. Enclosures can be found at IOR/F/4/2504/142186.The second letter is dated 2 October 1852 and is present at folio 1083. Enclosures can be found at IOR/F/4/2504/142187.The third letter is dated 3 November 1852 and is present at folio 1084. Enclosures can be found at IOR/F/4/2504/142188.The fourth letter is dated 3 November 1852 and is present at folio 1085. Enclosures can be found at IOR/F/4/2504/142189.The fifth letter is dated 3 December 1852 and is present at folios 1086-1087. Enclosures can be found at:IOR/F/4/2504/142190IOR/F/4/2504/142191IOR/F/4/2504/142192IOR/F/4/2504/142193.The sixth letter is dated 13 January 1853 and is present at folios 1088-1089. Enclosures can be found at:IOR/F/4/2504/142194IOR/F/4/2504/142195IOR/F/4/2504/142196IOR/F/4/2504/142197IOR/F/4/2504/142198IOR/F/4/2504/142199IOR/F/4/2504/142200.The seventh letter is dated 11 February 1853 and is present at folio 1090.The sixth letter contains a short quotation from a letter, dated 21 January 1852, from the Court of Directors to the Government of Bombay.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'Draft No. 350 of 1853', 'Collection N 1 (In 16 Volumes) & 3 Supplementary Vols:', 'Vol: 1', and 'Examiner's Office'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1080, and terminates at f 1090, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of political letters from the Government of Bombay to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and a letter from the Court of Directors to the Government of Bombay. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of forty-five items on the Persian Gulf.The item contains summaries of the enclosures to the political letters, mostly concerning:Alleged acts of piracy and plunder of wrecked vessels in the Gulf, and efforts to obtain redress for theseAffairs in Muscat, including a dispute between Syed Thooene [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Acting Governor of Muscat, and Heskeal Yusoof [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], Acting Native Agent at MuscatAffairs in Bahrein [Bahrain]The situation in Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi]Hostilities between the Sheik [Shaikh] of Rasul-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] and the sheiks of Debaye [Dubai], Ejman [Ajman], and Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn], and the eventual signing of a truceTours of the Arabian coast of the Gulf conducted by Commodore Sir Henry Martin Blackwood and Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian GulfThe activities of Saeed bin Mootluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq al-Muṭayrī], the Wahabee [Wahhābī] Agent at Brymee [al-Buraymi].The item contains a table of contents (f 251), and the title page (f 250) contains the following references: ‘P C [Previous Communication] 5507’, ‘D/t 197/47’, ‘Collection No. 7, Vol. 1’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 250 and terminates at f 275, 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.