‘Persian Gulf. Report of the cruise of the Hon’ble Company’s Sloop “Elphinstone” round the &ca &ca. – Vol: 6’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Report of the cruise of the Hon’ble Company’s Sloop “Elphinstone” round the &ca &ca. – Vol: 6’
- Date:
- 1849/1849
- Description:
- 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/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; and Lieutenant Alan Hyde Gardner, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf. It is the sixth in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Gardner’s tours of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf in the East India Company sloop of war Elphinstone, and his communications with the shaikhs of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Debaye [Dubai], whose subjects had plundered each other’s property at sea.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 5 of No 95’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 170, and terminates at f 186 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:
- Seizure of vessels and cargoes
Emir of Dubai
Emir of Abu Dhabi - Geographic region:
- Debaye
Aboothabee - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098180536.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098180536.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2349/123813
IOR/F/4/2349/123813