'Persian Gulf. Schooner Mahi and Pirate Soheil bin Atteesh'

Title:

'Persian Gulf. Schooner Mahi and Pirate Soheil bin Atteesh'

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 third in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]; Captain Stephen Lushington, Commodore and Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy; and Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain].The item concerns:The return of the Mahito Bombay from the Gulf, and the question of whether the Resident in the Persian Gulf should have the discretion, in certain situations, to extend a vessel’s period of service in the Squadron of the Indian Navy in the Persian GulfReports on the whereabouts of Soheil ben Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh], who is said to have committed a ‘piracy’ against a vessel from Bahrein, and the question of whether more might be done to seize him.The item contains a table of contents (ff 446-447), and the title page (f 445) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1850’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 3’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 445 and terminates at f 462, 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
Naval operations

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100108386731.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108386731.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2416/130508
IOR/F/4/2416/130508

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