'Persian Gulf. Piracy. Commission of a – by a party of the Huwajir tribe on a Bushire Buteel.'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Persian Gulf. Piracy. Commission of a – by a party of the Huwajir tribe on a Bushire Buteel.'
- Date:
- 1850/1851
- 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 fifth 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; Commodore John Patterson Porter, commanding the Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Frederick Erskine Manners, commanding the Honourable Company’s brigantine Tigris.The item concerns the reported plunder, by a group from the Huwajir [al-Hawājir] tribe, of a vessel belonging to a Bushire [Bushehr] merchant at the mouth of the Euphrates river. Lieutenant Manners seeks to locate the ‘pirate boat’, going first to Mohumrah [Khorramshahr, also rendered as Mohumerah in the item], then to Grain [Kuwait, also rendered as Grane and Koweit in the item] and finally to Katiffe [Al-Qatif, also rendered as Katiff in the item], where he is able to seize the boat. Included is a list of the articles found on board.The item contains a table of contents (f 482), and the title page (f 481) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 5’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 481 and terminates at f 497, 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
- Geographic region:
- Katiffe
Grain
Mohumrah - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108386790.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108386790.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2416/130510
IOR/F/4/2416/130510